Mearidy obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
************************************************

Name, date of obit, date submitted, submitted for the USGenWeb Archives by:

Mearidy, Annie Bell Cook     2 May 2008    May 2008    Jerry Nelson
Mearidy, Demetrius          12 Oct 2004    Oct 2004    Jerry Nelson

***************************************************************************

Obituary published in The Hammond Daily Star on:  5/2/2008

MEARIDY, ANNIE BELL COOK
Annie Bell "Ms. Annie" Cook Mearidy, age 81, a native and long-time
resident of Tangipahoa, La (and later Lancaster, Ca), died Thursday, April
24, 2008 at 11:15 p.m. Pacific Time in Glendale, Ca.  She was born on
November 15, 1926 in Tangipahoa to the late Lee Cook and Lena Green Cook.
She graduated from Tangipahoa Parish Training School in Kentwood in 1945
and attended Hampton Institute in Virginia for one year.  She married the
late Otis Taylor Mearidy on November 3, 1947 in Washington, D.C. at the
Federal Courthouse Building. Eleven children were born to this union.  She
was a housewife and community activist and enjoyed traveling, reading,
cooking for her family and friends and being of service to others.  The
family would like to thank the staff of the Isocare Nursing Home in
Glendale for their excellent care of Mrs. Mearidy during her two-year
illness.  She is survived by four sons: Otis Phillip Mearidy, Lake Charles;
Billy Ray Mearidy, Tangipahoa; Felix Mearidy, Tangipahoa and Don Mearidy,
Houston, Tx; six daughters: Elaine Mearidy Fultz, Tangipahoa; Debrah
Mearidy Jefferson, Los Angeles, Ca.; Michelle Mearidy, Columbus, Mo.; Judy
Mearidy Taylor, Lancaster, Ca.; Frances Mearidy Cook, Kentwood and Celeste
Mearidy McNulty, Bogue Chitto, Miss.; one daughter-in-law: Willie Jean
Mearidy, Tangipahoa; one stepdaughter: Mary Moore, San Antonio, Tx.; four
sisters: Jessie Mae Cook, Rose Burnadine Cook and Ora Lee Cook, all of
Tangipahoa and Mildren Brown of Kentwood and a special cousin, Doretha
Dillon of Los Angeles, Ca.  She also has three godchildren: John Cockerham,
Jr., Covington; Cheryl Fultz, Magnolia, Miss. and Anita Gant, Kentwood; 41
grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews,
cousins, other relatives and friends.  She is preceded in death by her
husband, parents, one son: Demetriaus Mearidy; two brothers: Major Cook and
John Taylor Cook; five sisters: Tella Williams, Esther Dumas, Frances
Womack, Irma Jean Hookfin and Beulah Addison; one half-sister: Betty Mae
Cook; father-in-law and mother-in-law: Ernest and Odeal Smith Mearidy; one
grandchild: Felicia Jannelle Fultz; grandparents, uncles, aunts and other
relatives.  Visitation will be Friday, May 2 at N.A. James Funeral Home
from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday, May 3 from 9:30 a.m. until the funeral
service at noon. Internment will follow at the Brown/Quinn Cemetery in
Tangipahoa.  

***************************************************************************

Obituary published in The Hammond Daily Star on:  10/12/2004

MEARIDY, DEMETRIUS
Tangipahoa -- U.S. Air Force veteran Demetrius Mearidy, 51, died Saturday,
Oct. 9, 2004.  He was a maintenance superintendent.  He is survived by his
wife, Willie Jane Mearidy of Tangipahoa; five daughters, Natasha M. Shanks
of Kentwood, Fredricka, Lorinda and Demetria Mearidy, all of Tangipahoa,
and Tyneisha McClendon of Greensburg; one son, Tarquin Mearidy of
Tangipahoa; seven sisters, Elaine M. Fultz of Tangipahoa, Deborah Jefferson
of Los Angeles, Michelle Mearidy of Columbia, Mo., Judy M. Taylor of
Lancaster, Calif., Frances M. Cook of Kentwood and Celeste M. McNulty of
Bogue Chitto, Miss., and Mary Smith of Hammond; four brothers, Otis P.
Mearidy of Gretna, Billy Ray Mearidy and Felix Mearidy, both of Tangipahoa,
and Don K. Mearidy of Fort Worth, Texas; nine grandchildren and two step-
grandchildren.  His father, Otis T. Mearidy, preceded him in death.
Visitation will be Friday from 2 to 8 p.m. at Angelic Funeral Home,
Roseland. The funeral will be Saturday at Quinn Chapel AME Church at 
11 a.m. conducted by the Rev. Marshall Holiday.  Burial will be at Orange
Grove COGIC, Kentwood.

***************************************************************************

File at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/tangipahoa/obits/obitssur/mearidy.txt