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Submitted: 11/21/21 • Approved: 11/21/21 • Last Updated: 11/24/21 • R469942-G0-S3
October 13, 1918-November 15, 2000
Inscribed on back of headstone:
Mother & Father of
E.J.
Brady
Von Nell
Margie Lou
Richard
John
*Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
WHEELER - B.F. "Red" Meadows, 82, died Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with Bill Morrison, minister of Church of Christ, and the Rev. Toby Henson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Mr. Meadows was born in Springtown and moved to Wheeler County as a child. He graduated from Briscoe High School. He was a farmer and rancher and had worked on the ranch of R. William and Richard Brown.
He was a member of First Baptist Church in Briscoe.
Mr. Meadows married Margie Vaughn in 1937 at Texola, Okla. He was preceded in death by two daughters, Von Nell Hughes, in 1971, and Lou Trimble, in 1990.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, E.J. Meadows and Brady Meadows, both of Wheeler, Richard Meadows of Briscoe and John Meadows of Wimberly; 12 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to the American Cancer Society, 3915 Bell St., Amarillo, TX 79101; or the American Heart Association, 2404 W. Seventh Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106.
Amarillo Daily News, Nov. 17, 2000
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