Melissa Helms Huggins

Fort Mill, SC – Mrs. Melissa Helms Huggins, 52, died peacefully on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, at Piedmont Medical Center.

A Celebration of Life service will be held for family and friends on Friday, September 2, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM at Whitesell Funeral Home with a memorial service beginning at 6:30 pm allow family and friends to hear some meaningful music and share some memories together.

Born in Rock Hill, SC, Mrs. Huggins was a daughter of the late Theodore “Crip” Helms and Elsie Ashley Helms. Melissa graduated from Fort Mill High School in 1987 and then went on to graduate from York Tech in Nursing. Melissa worked for Fort Mill Family Practice for over 20 years, she cared and loved patients and always gave them a hug and talked to them.

Melissa loved her family and her friends especially her Kids Keaton and Theo. She loved spending time with them listening to music or dancing with them and watching tv and shows especially with Charlie Sheen and chef Gordon Ramsey.

She loved going to Concerts with her other sister Sherry Williams Foxx and talking to her other brother Ken Lowder about issues or concerns with him.

Melissa was a free spirit woman who would help you if she could and would speak her mind even if you didn’t want to hear it. She was one you could always go to with your feeling and problems and she would be understanding of the situation and never judgmental.

Melissa requested a celebration of life be held in her honor as opposed to traditional funeral services. We request all of Melissa’s loved ones to join us in celebrating her beautiful life  together once we make the arrangements for the service.

Surviving are her two children, Keaton Huggins (20) and Theo Huggins (16); two brothers, Mike “Big E” Helms (Angela) and Rusty Helms (Laurie); several nieces and her dog, Arwen. She was preceded in death by a sister, Cathy Moss.

Whitesell Funeral Home is serving the family.