Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....MEEK, KATHLEEN WILLIAMS December 16, 2012
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News Star World - December 21, 2012
KATHLEEN WILLIAMS MEEK

Kathleen Williams Meek, age 92, passed away at her home on December 16, 2012. 
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 AM Saturday, December 22, 2012, at 
Mer Rouge Cemetery with the Rev. Frank Swindle officiating. Services are under 
the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home, Sterlington Road, Monroe.

Mrs. Meek was born May 16, 1920, in Mer Rouge. She was the seventh of eight 
children born to Mary Emma Davenport Williams and Alex Norwood Williams, a 
pioneer family of Morehouse Parish. She graduated from LSU in 1941 and later 
attended graduate school at LSU. On New Year's Eve of 1941 she married Roy 
Clark Meek. During World War II and immediately after, they lived in several 
different cities and states but moved permanently to Monroe in 1950. Mr. Meek 
died in Monroe in 1996. She was also predeceased by all seven of her siblings. 
She is survived by her two children and their spouses, Paula Meek Taylor and 
her husband Ronald of Franklin, Tennessee, and Craig Lee Meek and his wife, 
Catherine Connors, of Monroe; four grandchildren, Andrea Meek Boyce of Baton 
Rouge, Lisa Meek Dunham of Sugar Hill, Georgia, Joel Taylor of Oxford, 
Alabama, and Kathleen Taylor Eastman of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee; two great 
granddaughters, four great grandsons, and one step great granddaughter.

Mrs. Meek was a social worker with the Louisiana Department of Public Welfare 
for more than 20 years, until her retirement in 1982. She was a lifelong 
Episcopalian and a member of Grace Episcopal Church since 1950. In her younger 
years she was active in the Daughters of the King at Grace Episcopal Church, 
the Monroe Junior Charity League, and the Alpha Omicron Pi Alumnae Association.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made either to St. Andrews Episcopal 
Church, P.O. Box 65, Mer Rouge, Louisiana 71261, to Grace Episcopal Church in 
Monroe, or to a charity of your choice.


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