LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
April 17, 1958
OSCAR BYR0N MEEKS
---Oscar Byron Meeks, sixty-three, died at the Long Beach, California hospital on April 10th following a few months illness caused from three repeated strokes.
---The son of James W. and Emma Meeks, he was born January 19, 1895 at Kirksville, Mo.
---He was married to Seattle Layton of Oklahoma and one daughter, Donna DeRue, was born.
---Other survivors include four grandchildren; a brother, John of Napa, California; two sisters, Mary Strausser of Canton, Ohio and Ethel Mansfield of La Plata.
---He was preceded in death by his father who died at Kirskville in 1897, his mother in 1940, a brother, Walter Meeks in 1927 and two half sisters, Gertrude Steets of Denver, Colorado and Nora B. Hoak of Washburn, Illinois in 1938.
---His mother and five children moved to La Plata in 1898 when he was three. At the age of six he attended the La Plata public schools and graduated with the class of 1914. He was employed at Williams & Williams Store on the South side of the La Plata square and at the W.T. Robinson Clothing Store. He was in World War I and was stationed in France for several years.
---He was in business at Enid, Oklahoma and at Blair, Wyoming. He had made his home in Long Beach for the past twenty years.
---Services were held April 12 at Mottell's Funeral Home in Long Beach.
April 17, 1958
OSCAR BYR0N MEEKS
---Oscar Byron Meeks, sixty-three, died at the Long Beach, California hospital on April 10th following a few months illness caused from three repeated strokes.
---The son of James W. and Emma Meeks, he was born January 19, 1895 at Kirksville, Mo.
---He was married to Seattle Layton of Oklahoma and one daughter, Donna DeRue, was born.
---Other survivors include four grandchildren; a brother, John of Napa, California; two sisters, Mary Strausser of Canton, Ohio and Ethel Mansfield of La Plata.
---He was preceded in death by his father who died at Kirskville in 1897, his mother in 1940, a brother, Walter Meeks in 1927 and two half sisters, Gertrude Steets of Denver, Colorado and Nora B. Hoak of Washburn, Illinois in 1938.
---His mother and five children moved to La Plata in 1898 when he was three. At the age of six he attended the La Plata public schools and graduated with the class of 1914. He was employed at Williams & Williams Store on the South side of the La Plata square and at the W.T. Robinson Clothing Store. He was in World War I and was stationed in France for several years.
---He was in business at Enid, Oklahoma and at Blair, Wyoming. He had made his home in Long Beach for the past twenty years.
---Services were held April 12 at Mottell's Funeral Home in Long Beach.
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
April 17, 1958
OSCAR BYR0N MEEKS
---Oscar Byron Meeks, sixty-three, died at the Long Beach, California hospital on April 10th following a few months illness caused from three repeated strokes.
---The son of James W. and Emma Meeks, he was born January 19, 1895 at Kirksville, Mo.
---He was married to Seattle Layton of Oklahoma and one daughter, Donna DeRue, was born.
---Other survivors include four grandchildren; a brother, John of Napa, California; two sisters, Mary Strausser of Canton, Ohio and Ethel Mansfield of La Plata.
---He was preceded in death by his father who died at Kirskville in 1897, his mother in 1940, a brother, Walter Meeks in 1927 and two half sisters, Gertrude Steets of Denver, Colorado and Nora B. Hoak of Washburn, Illinois in 1938.
---His mother and five children moved to La Plata in 1898 when he was three. At the age of six he attended the La Plata public schools and graduated with the class of 1914. He was employed at Williams & Williams Store on the South side of the La Plata square and at the W.T. Robinson Clothing Store. He was in World War I and was stationed in France for several years.
---He was in business at Enid, Oklahoma and at Blair, Wyoming. He had made his home in Long Beach for the past twenty years.
---Services were held April 12 at Mottell's Funeral Home in Long Beach.
April 17, 1958
OSCAR BYR0N MEEKS
---Oscar Byron Meeks, sixty-three, died at the Long Beach, California hospital on April 10th following a few months illness caused from three repeated strokes.
---The son of James W. and Emma Meeks, he was born January 19, 1895 at Kirksville, Mo.
---He was married to Seattle Layton of Oklahoma and one daughter, Donna DeRue, was born.
---Other survivors include four grandchildren; a brother, John of Napa, California; two sisters, Mary Strausser of Canton, Ohio and Ethel Mansfield of La Plata.
---He was preceded in death by his father who died at Kirskville in 1897, his mother in 1940, a brother, Walter Meeks in 1927 and two half sisters, Gertrude Steets of Denver, Colorado and Nora B. Hoak of Washburn, Illinois in 1938.
---His mother and five children moved to La Plata in 1898 when he was three. At the age of six he attended the La Plata public schools and graduated with the class of 1914. He was employed at Williams & Williams Store on the South side of the La Plata square and at the W.T. Robinson Clothing Store. He was in World War I and was stationed in France for several years.
---He was in business at Enid, Oklahoma and at Blair, Wyoming. He had made his home in Long Beach for the past twenty years.
---Services were held April 12 at Mottell's Funeral Home in Long Beach.
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