- Date Of Birth: April 15, 1973
- Date Of Death: January 2, 2022
- State: Massachusetts
Carmelinda “Melin” M.
She was an active and dedicated volunteer and student mentor throughout the community. Melin and Freedom Credit Union opened a branch inside the Roger L. Putnam Vocational Academy where she worked closely with students teaching them how to operate the daily bank operations and how to budget and manage their money. Although her background is in finance literacy, her passion was truly mentoring at-risk youth in Springfield. For over a decade she has been involved in school based mentoring programs. During that time, she mentored several young ladies, serving as a positive role model and friend to them to make it all the way to graduation. Melin also volunteered with Junior Achievement.
Melin will be especially remembered as a selfless, giving person and a loving and devoted mother and daughter.
She leaves to cherish her memory, her children: Malia Gloria Wood and Walter Wood, III, her fiancé Walter Wood, Jr. and her mother, Emelinda Tibbetts of Roxbury, of Maine. Besides her children, she leaves behind a step-daughter Joslyn Kile Wood and God-daughter Meagan Levesque both of Maine and a handful of adoptive nieces and nephews. She also leaves numerous close friends including Olive Kauila-Fields of Hawaii, Angela Gotay-Cheverez of Hadley, Michelle Rowe of Springfield, Linda Mahon of Springfield and her dear friends back in Oxford Credit Union, Maine where she worked for ten years before moving to Springfield; Rosemary Richard, Debra Belskis, Kelly Bolkinick, and Liza Moore.
