MELVIN BARTLEY JR.

Melvin Bartley Jr., age 59, a native of Morgan City, LA, and resident of Lafayette, LA, passed away on Thursday, January 2, 2025. He was born January 30, 1965.
He was the son of Gertrude Pittman Bartley and the late Melvin Bartley of Morgan City, LA.
Melvin Jr. attended Holy Cross Catholic School and graduated from Morgan City High School Class of 1983. He attended Southern University A & M College and Nicholls State University. Melvin Jr. played football at Morgan City High and Southern University. Melvin was a Mason at the St. John Lodge No. 11 in Morgan City. After a 25-year stint with the oil & gas industry, Melvin Jr.’s entrepreneurial drive led him to become the owner-operator of Spartan Transportation. Melvin Jr. was a quiet hard-worker with a variety of interests.
Melvin Jr. was a very thoughtful and kind person who loved his family and enjoyed the company of his many friends. He will be sadly missed and remembered by his mother, Gertrude Pittman Bartley of Morgan City; brother, Stephen Willis Bartley of Lafayette; uncles, John W. Pittman of Morgan City, Frank Bartley III of Baton Rouge, Roland S. Merchant of Toluca Lake, CA, and Calhoun Moultrie Jr. of New Orleans; aunts, Brenda Pittman of Morgan City, Ruby Bartley Sanchez, Celia Bartley Clark, and Laura Bartley Marshall of Baton Rouge, Lorraine Bartley of Toledo, OH, and Gloria Bartley Moultrie of New Orleans; and a host of cousins, relatives and friends.
Melvin Jr. was preceded in death by his father Melvin Bartley, one sister Zingara Lynn Bartley, maternal grandparents, Willis and Margorie Pittman and paternal grandparents Hazel and Frank Bartley Jr., aunts Dinah Pittman, Jacqueline Bartley, Audrey Bartley Merchant, Melinda Bartley Martin, Brenda Hebert Bartley, Shirley Pittman, and Janice Little Bartley, uncles, Bobby C. Pittman, Huey Bartley and Herbert Bartley, Murphy Sanchez, Thornton Clark, Arvel Marshall, and Lawrence Martin.
Family, relatives, and friends are invited to attend the celebration of life at the Mt. Era Baptist Church, 406 Lawrence Street, Morgan City, LA on Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. Visitation from 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Rev. Norman Stovall, Pastor and Officiant. Services entrusted to MK Dixon Funeral Home, (337) 940-9253, 211 Main Street, Baldwin LA 70514.