Nov 24
Meltons Continue Daughter's Legacy with Nursing Scholarship
Nov. 24, 2025 - John and Cherryl Melton of Cheraw suffered a terrible loss in February 2006 when their daughter, Kimberly, was killed in an automobile accident. She was enrolled in Richmond Community College’s Nursing Assistant program at the time. It was her dream to become a nurse.
Her parents decided to create the Kimberly C. Melton Memorial Scholarship in her honor with the RichmondCC Foundation.
“We started the scholarship to give other people who have the same dreams as our daughter a chance to fulfill their dreams through her,” John Melton said. “Kimberly always enjoyed helping people, and this is a way she’ll be remembered for doing the thing that she lived for.”
The first Kimberly C. Melton scholarship was first presented in 2007, and by 2010 had grown to fund two students.
Each recipient of the award is hand-selected by a committee consisting of RichmondCC nursing staff. Plus, each recipient learns of Kimberly’s story and meets with the Meltons.
“The recipients of the scholarship are like family to us, because we can see in them the same passion for helping others that Kimberly had,” John Melton said.
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