January 13, 2021

Shelley Roberts Jones, 83, of West Grove, died Thursday, Jan. 7, at the Jennersville Hospital. She was the loving wife of Donald Raymond Jones, with whom she shared 43 years of marriage.

Born in 1937 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she was the daughter of the late Kenneth S. Roberts and the late Grace Chardy Roberts.

At the age of 13, Shelley and her family returned to Pennsylvania moving from West Chester to Kennett Square.

She married Richard W. Taylor in 1957 and eventually settled in Kennett Square and having two children. She was very active in the Kennett Square community and was a member of the United States Tennis Association as a coach and ranked player.

After her divorce in 1978, she moved to Raleigh, N.C. In 1979 she married Donald R. Jones. They lived in Wilmington, and then they moved to Pocopson Township.

In 1994 Don and Shelley moved to Nokomis, Fla. to enjoy the warm climate and be the go-to person for dog watching in the neighborhood. They returned to West Grove, in 2017 residing at Jenner’s Pond..

In addition to her husband Donald, she is survived by her two children, Bryan Taylor and his wife Diana of York, Stacy Botkin of Landenberg, and Don’s three children, Judith (Jones) Harlin and her husband James of Berlin, Md., Cynthia Jones-Taddei and her husband Leonard of Newark, and Douglas Jones and his wife Karen of Milton, Fla., two brothers, Kenneth Roberts of Kennett Square, and Henry “Rique” Roberts of West Chester, 12 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Due to pandemic restrictions services will be private.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation to the Brandywine Valley SPCA using the link, bvspca.org/donate/ or by calling 610-482-4289 to donate

To view her online tribute and to share a memory with her family, please visit http://www.kuzoandfoulkfh.com/

Arrangements by the Foulk Funeral Home of West Grove, West Grove.

Sylvia M. Meloni, 87, of Glen Mills, died Monday, Jan. 11. She was born in the Bronx, N.Y. to Nicholas and Rose Perrucci Serafini. Sylvia lived in Glen Mills, for 20 years, previously living in Thornton, Pa. and Wilmington, Del.

A homemaker, Sylvia volunteered for more than 40 years at the DuPont Children’s Hospital where she received the “Hall of Fame Recognition” award in 2019. Devoted to her Catholic faith, she was a member of St. Cornelius Catholic Church. Sylvia worked part-time for the Century 21 Real Estate Store and also her daughter’s law office in Media.

Sylvia is preceded in death by her husband, Art Meloni who died in 2001, and a sister, Loretta Giuliano. She is survived by her three children, Douglas (Maria) Meloni, Karen (Steven) Sibbers and Kathryn A. Meloni; six grandchildren, Gina (Rob) Kaufman, Michael (Amanda) Meloni, Steven Meloni, and Jessica, Joshua and Sarah Crampsey, and three great-grandchildren, Gianna Kaufman, Alessandra, and Luca Meloni.

A visitation will be held on Thursday evening, 6-8 p.m. at the Pagano Funeral Home, 3711 Foulk Rd., Garnet Valley, and also on Friday at St. Cornelius Catholic Church, 160 Ridge Rd., Chadds Ford, from 11-11:45 a.m., followed by a noon mass.

Interment will remain private. Donations in her memory may be made to either St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (www.stjude.org) or the ALS Foundation (www.als.org). Online condolences may be made by visiting www.paganofuneralhome.com.