Jewel Irene Keller Massey

Jewel Irene Keller Massey, 91, of Phenix City, AL passed away peacefully late Thursday evening, November 30, 2023, at the Columbus Hospice House in Columbus, GA.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am EST on Friday, December 8, 2023, at Vance Brooks Funeral Home in Phenix City with Rev. Boyd Cochran and Rev. Chris Medley officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeview Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends Thursday evening, December 7, 2023, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm EST at the funeral home in Phenix City.
Mrs. Massey was born November 13, 1932, in Parkdale, AL to the late Sumpter Floyd Keller and Allie Mae Brown Keller. For many years, she served as as a nurse’s aide with Cobb Memorial Hospital in Phenix City, Baptist Hospital in Beaumont, TX, Phenix Health Care, and Canterbury Health Care, both in Phenix City. But one of her greatest joys was owning her own daycare and helping with children for more than 20 years. She loved traveling and singing with the Sounds of Faith Gospel Group. She enjoyed church fellowship, gospel singings, family gatherings, and sharing special times with all her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was Pentecostal by faith and a member of Pierce Chapel Assembly of God Church in Phenix City.
Other than her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, Robert Arnold Massey, Sr.; son, Jerry Lee Massey; four sisters, Edna Moore, Betty Jo Colbert, Verlie Thomason, and Nell Gowan, brother, Floyd Keller, and grandson, Jeremiah Massey.
She is survived by her daughter, Deborah Massey Medley; two sons, Robert Arnold Massey, Jr., and Timothy Woodrow Massey all of Phenix City, AL; one sister, Frances McDurmont (Wayne) of Smiths Station, AL; four grandchildren, Rev. Chris Medley (Rev. Ali Medley), Alison Powell, Chance Massey, and Shelley Massey; (10) great grandchildren, and host of nieces and nephews, extended family, church family and many caring friends.