Information for George Edward Meador
29 April, 1929 – 20 June, 1942
From The Caldwell News-Tribune
Monday, 22 June June, 1942
Contributed by Dennis McIndoo


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Also this article in The News-Tribune
Wednesday, 24 June, 1942

 

Former Caldwell Youth Buried Here Thursday      Funeral services for George Edward Meador, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Meador, Jr., of Ontario, Calif., formerly of Caldwell will be held at the Peckham chapel Thursday at 2:30 p.m.  The Rev. George Roseberry will officiate and burial will be in Canyon Hill cemetery.  Mr. and Mrs. Meador and son, Paul, arrived in Caldwell this morning with the body of their elder son.      Born at Caldwell, April 29, 1929, Goerge Edward was reported to have accidentally drowned while swimming in the Chaffey plunge at Ontario Saturday afternoon.  He was a member of the Red Cross swimming class and had only recently learned to swim, the instructor reported.  He attended Vina T. Banks junior high school and was a member of Ontario Boy Scout Troop No. 9 and the Nazarene church.  He attended school at Apple Valley before his parents moved to Lincoln, Neb., in 1939 and to Ontario two years later.      Before the body ws sent to Caldwell, funeral services were held at the Draper chapel in Ontario Monday afternoon with the Nazarene pastor in charge.      Survivors besides the parents and brother, are his grandmother, Mrs. Jesse Meador, Caldwell;  his grandfather, L. E. Bebb, Notus;  also the following aunts and uncles of Caldwell and vicinity, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lantzer, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kohtz, Mr. and Mrs. Erven Heckathorn, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Lantzer, Mr. and Mrs. Emery Royce and Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Bebb.

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