LEONARD MEEK
Pvt. Leonard Meek
Pvt. Meek, 19, son of Mrs. Asa (Mariah) Meek, city, has been reported
killed on July 10 in France. He previously was reported missing in
action on July 10, but a War Department telegram received on August 10
by his mother listed him as having been killed.
An infantryman with the 83rd Division, Pvt. Meek entered the army in
October, 1943, and had been overseas since May, 1944. In civilian
life he was employed by the State Highway Department.
Pvt. Meek had his training at Camp Wheeler, Ga. In April of this
year, he was given a thirteen day furlough which he spent with his
mother and brothers and sisters before going on to Ft. Geo. G. Meade,
Md. While training at Camp Wheeler, he qualified as an expert
marksman with the rifle, the mortar, the hand grenade and the machine
gun, bayonet, pistol and carbine.
In addition to his mother, Pvt. Meek leaves two sisters, Mrs. Russell
Reneer, Jackson, Mich., and Mrs. Ray Smith, Henlamson, W.Va., three
brothers, Clarence and Authie of Jackson, Mich., and Virgil, city.
Paintsville Herald,
Thursday
August 17, 1944
(NOTE: Leonard was born in January of 1925, son of
Asa Meek and Mary Alice "Mariah" Davis Meek. Asa's parents were Nathan
Meek and Columbia J. Webb Meek.)
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