Melissa Nicole Phares

Melissa Nicole Phares, 32, went to be with her Lord on Sunday, May 9, 2021. Visitation for family and friends will be on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Wade Family Funeral Home, 4140 W. Pioneer Parkway, Arlington, 76013. Graveside Services will be on the following day, Thursday, May 13th at 2:00 p.m. Cooper's Chapel Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Texas. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Mayfield Road Baptist Church, 1701 E. Mayfield Road, Arlington, Tx 76014 or Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance at www.curefa.org/donate. Melissa was born on August 13, 1988 to Jerry Leon and Trudy Darlene (Culver) Phares in Tyler, Texas. After graduation from Lamar High School in Arlington in 2006, Melissa attended Tarrant County College, Southeast Campus. Upon graduation there, she transferred to University of Texas – Arlington where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Social Work in 2016. Melissa was a member of Mayfield Road Baptist Church in Arlington. Melissa is preceded in death by her grandmother, Dorothy Louise Culver, and grandfathers, Harry “Bo” Culver and Jerrell Leon Phares and a cousin, Andrew Odor. She is survived by her mother, Trudy Phares, and brother, Clint Phares of Arlington; father, Jerry Phares and grandmother, Ethel Phares of Borger; aunt and uncle, Judith and Greg Odor and family of Saginaw, aunt and uncle, Gail and Butch McGarry and family of Yale, Oklahoma; great-aunts Tommie Lou Townsend and family of Sulphur Springs and Marcia Culver and family of Longview, and Ethna Culver and family of Omaha, as well as many cousins and countless church family and friends. Wade Family Funeral Home 817-274-9233