Obituaries: C. A. Meek, 1948, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 26, 1948 Winn Parish Enterprise

C. A. Meek, 73, Former Winnfield Resident Dies

Funeral services for C. A. Meek, retired lumberman of Shreveport, and former
resident of Winnfield, were held in Shreveport, Tuesday, at 2 p.m.  Interment
was in Forest Park Cemetery.  Mr. Meek, vice-president of the Mansfield
Hardwood Lumber Company for 45 years, retired in 1928.  A native of
Indianapolis, Ind., built sawmills at Winnfield and Zwolle, and at Reede, Ark.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. C. A. Meeks, Shreveport; two daughters, Mrs.
Martha DeLoach, Zwolle; Miss Ethel Meek, Shreveport; five sons, Willard of
Lake Charles, Albert and Robert of Shreveport, Harry A. of Glendale, Calif.,
and James Melton Meek of Washington, D. C.

Honorary pallbearers named in Winnfield were Jessie Corley, Bryant C. Long, A.
P. Burton, Judge R. W. Oglesby, Sheriff Bryant Sholars, C. F. Walsworth, Jack
Oglesby, Tracy L. Harrel, Mack L. Branch, John T. DeLoach, Cyrus McGinty, and
Judge Cas Moss.