Obituaries beginning with " Me-Mh ", LaSalle Parish, Louisiana Submitted by: As listed Source: As listed Date: As listed ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Obituaries listed on this page: (total number -4-) -Medica, Nick -Meeks, Syble Earline Mullins -Melvin, John Heber -Meredith, Ernest [NOTE-Submitters address frequently changes.] [these addresses are only changed or updated] [on the contributors/submitters page ] ================================================ ------------ MEDICA, Nick ------------ Submitted by: Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219 Trout, La. 71371 Submitted: January 2008 Source: The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La. Date: March 26, 2003 Headline: Nick Medica Nick Medica, 89, of Ruston, died Thursday, March 20, 2003, in Ruston following a lengthy illness. A native of Jena, Mr. Medica was an outstanding athlete at Jena High School, playing on the JHS All-State basketball team in the early 1930's. He was a former player for the Louisiana Tech Varsity Basketball Team and a member of the Louisiana Tech Athletic "Hall of Fame." He was an avid Louisaina Tech supporter and was "Alumnus of the YEar." He was a member of First Baptist Church of Ruston where he was involved in the choir, a Sunday school teacher and a deacon. Services were held at 11 a.m., Sayurday, March 22, at the chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home in Ruston with Dr. Andy Johnson officiating. Interment followed in the Greenwood Cemetery under direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston. Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Sunshine Medica of Ruston; one sister, Francis Medica of Jena; and several nieces and nephews. ========== ---------------------------- MEEKS, Syble Earline Mullins ---------------------------- Submitted by: Kathy LeMay Kelly P.O. Box 219 Trout, La. 71371 Submitted: January 2008 Source: The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La. Date: December 7, 2005; Page 16A Headline: Syble Earline Meeks Syble Earline Meeks, 74, of Olla, died at 11:23 a.m., Thursday, December 1, 2005, at the LaSalle Nursing Home of Jena. She was a homemaker and member of the Church of Christ. Mrs. Meeks was born June 19m 1931, in Alcon County, Mississippi, to the union of her parents, Bricey and Martha Jone Mullins. Graveside services were held at 2 p.m., Saturday, December 3, at the Magnolia Cemetery of Nebo with Rev. Eddie Thompson officiating. Interment was under direction of Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home of Jena. Survivors include one daughter, Rachel Wilson of Tullos; one son, Bobby K. Meeks of Olla; eight grandchidlren and eight great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were Craig Carter, J. C. Stepherns, Toby Stegall, Harold Wilson, Daniel Meeks, Wade Caskey, and Rodney Maxwell. ========== ------------------ MELVIN, John Heber ------------------ Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 902 Kilgore Court, Allen, TX 75013, doug324@aol.com. (No Relation.) Submitted: December 2006 Source: The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, LA. Clippings at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, LA. Date: June 9, 1966 Headline: Melvin Rites Held in Trout Last Week Mr. John Heber Melvin, 88, of Trout died last week at the residence of Sam Woodrow Melvin, Jena. Mr. Melvin was a retired lumberman. Funeral services were held at the Trout Methodist Church with the Rev. V. T. Bradford officiating. Burial was in Nolley Cemetery at Jena under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home. Mr. Melvin is survived by five sons, Fred Melvin, Tacoma, Wash., James Melvin, Trout, John Melvin, Meridian, Miss., Woodrow Melvin, Jena, and Ted Melvin, Brookhaven, Miss.; two sisters, Mrs. Hattie M. Bounds and Mrs. Dixie M. Johnson, Miss.; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. ========== ---------------- MEREDITH, Ernest ---------------- Submitted by: Bryan Price (no relation) Winnfield, Louisiana Submitted: January 2008 Source: www.thejenatimes.net Ernest Meredith, who coached the 1949 Olla Standard High School baseball team to the state championship and two years later also led the 1951 LaSalle High School baseball team to the state title, has died. He was 87. Mr. Meredith also coached the 1979 Wisner High School basketball team to the state championship. The 1949 and 1951 titles by the Tigers were the only state champion- ships won by highschools in Olla in any sport until the LaSalle High girl's soft- ball team won the state title in 2002. Mr. Meredith, from Wisner died, March 14, 2007, at the Plantation Manor Nursing Center in Winnsboro. He retired as coach and teacher at Wisner in 1979. Willie Ernest Meredith Jr. was born Oct. 19, 1919 in Clarks to Willie Ernest Sr. and Belle Prestridge Meredith. His mother was a daughter of John Quincy Prestridge, a member of a pioneer family in the development of Olla. John Quincy Prestridge and his brother, James Emerson Prestridge, were sons of Josiah Prestridge, one of the original settlers at Castor Sulphur Springs just outside of Olla before there was an Olla. The two sons built small sawmills that eventually became three major sawmills and sawmill towns: the Urania Lumber Co. mill in Urania and the Louisiana Central Lumber Co. mills in Clarks and Standard. One member of Mr. Meredith's 1949 Olla Standard High state championship team was James Emerson "Chicken", and Ernest Meredith were second cousins. After beginning to fly at age 16, Mr. Meredith was a pilot during World War II, flying the "Hump" over the Himalaya Mountains carrying wartime supplies from India to the Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek's Nationalist Chinese forces fighting the Japanese army in CHina. Mr. Meredith, after the war, was a civilian flight instructor at various times. He began to teach and to coach baseball, football and basketball at Oll Standard High School in the fall of 1948. He left Olla in 1951 and began coaching at Wisner in 1960. In the interim, he taught and coached at high schools in Columbia and at Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and taught flying. Survivors include his wife, Mary Jo Hawkins Meredith; two daughters, Jo Caldwell and her husband, Mike, and Jan Williamson, all of Wisner, and a sister, Mary Louise Douglas and her husband, A. J., of Grayson. Other survivors include five grand- children: Chris and Todd Roberts, Devin and Tandi Caldwell, and John Williamson. Surviving great grandchildren are Tyler, Makayla and Tanner Roberts, Haily and Cade Caldwell and Chelsea Ardoine. Services were held in the First Baptist Church in Wisner March 17, with burial with military honors in the Welcome Home Cemetery in Grayson. Pallbearers were Bobby Blunt, Devin Caldwell, Todd Roberts, Donald Ross, Tyler Roberts, Paul Douglas, Louis Johnson and James Lachney. Honorary pallbearers were all of his former student athletes. Two of his former Olla Standard High School athletes attended the funeral: Ray Duke of Olla, a former member of the LaSalle Parish School Board, and Jimmie Kees of Urania. ======================================= ========== > END OF RECORD <=========== =======================================