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Submitted: 11/22/21 • Approved: 11/22/21 • Last Updated: 11/25/21 • R470028-G0-S3
1962-1973
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Rites Set for Victim of Collision
WHEELER - Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Wheeler First Baptist Church for Melvina Caroline Meadows, 11, the victim of a traffic accident.
Officiating will be the Rev. David Campbell, pastor. Burial will be in the Wheeler Cemetery by the Wright Funeral Home.
The girl died at the scene of the crash about 10:35 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Oklahoma 6 and U.S. 283 near Sayre, Okla.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said the victim's father, Melvin W. Meadows, 62, of Wheeler, was driving east on the state highway when his car apparently skidded through the intersection and crashed into the semirig.
Patrolmen said the highways were wet because of mist that had been falling Friday morning. At the time of the accident, a heavy fog blanketed the area.
Meadows and his 4-year-old son, Buford, were injured in the accident. The boy was in satisfactory condition today at St. Anthony's Hospital at Amarillo. Meadows was in fair condition at Sayre Memorial Hospital.
Melvina Caroline was born at Shamrock. She attended Wheeler schools.
She is survived by her father; four brothers, Buford of the home, Bobby Meadows of Hereford, and Johnny Wilson and Jim Wilson, both of Butte, Mont.; and seven sisters, Mrs. Shirley Scott of Shamrock, Mrs. Gladys Smith of Utica, Calif., Mrs. Betty Skidmore of Elk City, and Mrs. Judy Wilson, both of Butte, [sic] Mrs. Gloria Gable of Gruver and Mrs. Mary Hensley of Oklahoma City.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times - 26 Nov 1973, Mon, Page 35)
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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Melvina Caroline Meadows
Date of Birth: 5 Mar 1962
Gender: Female
Birth County: Wheeler
Father's Name: Melvion William Meadows
Mother's Name: Grace Delene Geyer
Roll Number: 1962_0011
Contributed on 11/22/21
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Record #: 470028