Born to James White Meeks and Emma Rebecca Klingman Meeks in Millard, Adair County, Missouri.
He was married to Mary E. Mershon Meeks
Walter worked as an engineer on Prairie Pipeline Co. Walter died of complications from a brain tumor according to the Missouri death certificate. He had an operation for the brain tumor in October 1926.
Siblings:
John Wesley Meeks
Byron Oscar Meeks
Mary Meeks Naylor
Ethel Meeks Mansfield
Older half-brother, Eddy Meeks and
older half-sister, Gertrude Meeks Hook
Children:
James Donald Meeks, born May 10, 1930, died Jan 16, 1999 buried at Bucker Hill Cemetery, Bucker MO
David Merlin Meeks, born April 24, 1923, died Aug 29, 2003 buried at Bucker Hill Cemetery, Bucker MO
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
February 24, 1927
WALTER J. MEEKS
---Walter J. Meeks died at the home of his wife's parents in Buckner Tuesday morning after an illness of several weeks of tumor of the brain.
---Mr. Meeks was an employee of the Prairie Oil company and was living at Dahinda, Illinois when he became seriously ill and was taken to Rochester, Minnesota and from there to Kansas City where the doctors announced his case as inoperable and he was taken to Buckner where he remained unconsious for several weeks. He was forty-three years old at the time of his death.
---Mr. Meeks is a former La Plata boy and is the oldest son of Mrs. Emma (Klingman)Meeks and a brother of John Meeks of this city.
---He leaves to mourn his departure, his wife and two children, his mother, two brothers and three sisters, namely, John Meeks of La Plata, Bryon Meeks of Bairall, Wyoming, Mrs. Ed Mansfield of Lakin, Kansas, Mrs. Vincent Naylor of Excelsior Springs, Mrs. John Hook of Dahinda, Illinois and other relatives and many friends.
---Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 2:00 at Buckner and burial was at that place.
He was married to Mary E. Mershon Meeks
Walter worked as an engineer on Prairie Pipeline Co. Walter died of complications from a brain tumor according to the Missouri death certificate. He had an operation for the brain tumor in October 1926.
Siblings:
John Wesley Meeks
Byron Oscar Meeks
Mary Meeks Naylor
Ethel Meeks Mansfield
Older half-brother, Eddy Meeks and
older half-sister, Gertrude Meeks Hook
Children:
James Donald Meeks, born May 10, 1930, died Jan 16, 1999 buried at Bucker Hill Cemetery, Bucker MO
David Merlin Meeks, born April 24, 1923, died Aug 29, 2003 buried at Bucker Hill Cemetery, Bucker MO
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
February 24, 1927
WALTER J. MEEKS
---Walter J. Meeks died at the home of his wife's parents in Buckner Tuesday morning after an illness of several weeks of tumor of the brain.
---Mr. Meeks was an employee of the Prairie Oil company and was living at Dahinda, Illinois when he became seriously ill and was taken to Rochester, Minnesota and from there to Kansas City where the doctors announced his case as inoperable and he was taken to Buckner where he remained unconsious for several weeks. He was forty-three years old at the time of his death.
---Mr. Meeks is a former La Plata boy and is the oldest son of Mrs. Emma (Klingman)Meeks and a brother of John Meeks of this city.
---He leaves to mourn his departure, his wife and two children, his mother, two brothers and three sisters, namely, John Meeks of La Plata, Bryon Meeks of Bairall, Wyoming, Mrs. Ed Mansfield of Lakin, Kansas, Mrs. Vincent Naylor of Excelsior Springs, Mrs. John Hook of Dahinda, Illinois and other relatives and many friends.
---Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 2:00 at Buckner and burial was at that place.
Born to James White Meeks and Emma Rebecca Klingman Meeks in Millard, Adair County, Missouri.
He was married to Mary E. Mershon Meeks
Walter worked as an engineer on Prairie Pipeline Co. Walter died of complications from a brain tumor according to the Missouri death certificate. He had an operation for the brain tumor in October 1926.
Siblings:
John Wesley Meeks
Byron Oscar Meeks
Mary Meeks Naylor
Ethel Meeks Mansfield
Older half-brother, Eddy Meeks and
older half-sister, Gertrude Meeks Hook
Children:
James Donald Meeks, born May 10, 1930, died Jan 16, 1999 buried at Bucker Hill Cemetery, Bucker MO
David Merlin Meeks, born April 24, 1923, died Aug 29, 2003 buried at Bucker Hill Cemetery, Bucker MO
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
February 24, 1927
WALTER J. MEEKS
---Walter J. Meeks died at the home of his wife's parents in Buckner Tuesday morning after an illness of several weeks of tumor of the brain.
---Mr. Meeks was an employee of the Prairie Oil company and was living at Dahinda, Illinois when he became seriously ill and was taken to Rochester, Minnesota and from there to Kansas City where the doctors announced his case as inoperable and he was taken to Buckner where he remained unconsious for several weeks. He was forty-three years old at the time of his death.
---Mr. Meeks is a former La Plata boy and is the oldest son of Mrs. Emma (Klingman)Meeks and a brother of John Meeks of this city.
---He leaves to mourn his departure, his wife and two children, his mother, two brothers and three sisters, namely, John Meeks of La Plata, Bryon Meeks of Bairall, Wyoming, Mrs. Ed Mansfield of Lakin, Kansas, Mrs. Vincent Naylor of Excelsior Springs, Mrs. John Hook of Dahinda, Illinois and other relatives and many friends.
---Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 2:00 at Buckner and burial was at that place.
He was married to Mary E. Mershon Meeks
Walter worked as an engineer on Prairie Pipeline Co. Walter died of complications from a brain tumor according to the Missouri death certificate. He had an operation for the brain tumor in October 1926.
Siblings:
John Wesley Meeks
Byron Oscar Meeks
Mary Meeks Naylor
Ethel Meeks Mansfield
Older half-brother, Eddy Meeks and
older half-sister, Gertrude Meeks Hook
Children:
James Donald Meeks, born May 10, 1930, died Jan 16, 1999 buried at Bucker Hill Cemetery, Bucker MO
David Merlin Meeks, born April 24, 1923, died Aug 29, 2003 buried at Bucker Hill Cemetery, Bucker MO
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
February 24, 1927
WALTER J. MEEKS
---Walter J. Meeks died at the home of his wife's parents in Buckner Tuesday morning after an illness of several weeks of tumor of the brain.
---Mr. Meeks was an employee of the Prairie Oil company and was living at Dahinda, Illinois when he became seriously ill and was taken to Rochester, Minnesota and from there to Kansas City where the doctors announced his case as inoperable and he was taken to Buckner where he remained unconsious for several weeks. He was forty-three years old at the time of his death.
---Mr. Meeks is a former La Plata boy and is the oldest son of Mrs. Emma (Klingman)Meeks and a brother of John Meeks of this city.
---He leaves to mourn his departure, his wife and two children, his mother, two brothers and three sisters, namely, John Meeks of La Plata, Bryon Meeks of Bairall, Wyoming, Mrs. Ed Mansfield of Lakin, Kansas, Mrs. Vincent Naylor of Excelsior Springs, Mrs. John Hook of Dahinda, Illinois and other relatives and many friends.
---Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 2:00 at Buckner and burial was at that place.
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