Kristy Lynell Melton was born on April 13, 1969 in Mesquite, Texas to Cecil and Sharon Melton. She moved to Canton, Texas in 1977 and graduated from Canton High School in 1988. She later graduated from Tyler School of Business with Honors in 1990. She moved to Twin Falls, Idaho in 2001, where she lived out the rest of her life going to the river with family, traveling and playing in pool leagues with her daughter and friends.
She was preceded in death by father, Cecil Melton; brother, Rocky Melton and a son, Jonathan Shipp.
She is survived by her mother, Sharon Melton; brothers, Kerry Novak, Leslie Melton and Brad Melton; her daughters, Katie Shipp and Kassie Shipp; five grandchildren, Bentley, Luke, Aubrey, Bradlee and Konner. Also special friends, Kristi and Tracie Stone, Jerry Johns, Sheryl Thorpe and Cindy Pahanish and many other family members and friends.