Obit for Leon Howard Meek
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
Dated April, 2001
1/26/2002 by Bill Cook, for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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Leon Howard Meek, 58, died Monday at his home in Hollis. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church with the Rev. James Densman and the Rev. 
Jack Harris officiating. 

Burial will follow at the Fairmount Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Stewart Funeral Service. 

He was born May 1, 1942, at the family home in Harmon County to Fred and Pauline (Kitty) Davidson Meek. 

He attended Arnett schools. He was a farmer and lived in the McKnight community all of his life. 

He married Karren Kay Carter on May 23, 1967 in Clayton, N.M. He was a member of the First Baptist Church. 
His special interests were his children, grandchildren, farming, working on his family tree, people, windmills 
and Bob Wills' western swing music. 

He is survived by his wife Karren of the home; daughter, Jetta Earls and her husband, Tommy of Elk City, a 
son, Kacey Meek of Hollis, his mother, Pauline (Kitty) Meek, also of Hollis, two sisters, Jo Ella Meek of 
Oklahoma City and Fredna Hash and husband Dennis of Miami, four grandsons, Mathew Matheson of Beaver, 
Colby Earls and Cameron Earls of Childress, Texas and Montana Matheson of Elk City. 

He was preceded in death by his father, Fred Lee Meek in 1989.