MEEK, Jethro A - Putnam

Jethro Albrecht Meek, 67, 222 E. Washington died Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, having been seriously ill two months. Mr. Meek was bom May 16, 1912, near Sandusky in Clinton Township, the son of Jethro C. and Anna Albrecht Meek. He graduated from Greensburg High School in 1929 and from Indiana University in 1933 where he was a Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Mr. Meek received his master’s from the University of Texas where he taught as an English professor for several years. During World War II he served as a cryptographer in the U.S. Army. He was married to Anne Birdwell Feb. 3, 1944 in Arlington, Va., and she preceded him in death Nov. 27, 1971. At the conclusion of the war, they returned to Greensburg to make their home, where Mr. Meek engaged in farm management and was an interior decorator. Mr. Meek was a member of the Welsh-Crawley-Kramer American Legion Post 129, was finance officer of the 40 & 8, a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Greensburg where he was an elder and had served as a Sunday School teacher, a member of the Elks, of which he was a past exalted ruler, a member of the Eagles Lodge, of the Greensburg Rotary Club, where he was a past president, and the Greensburg Country Club. He was current president of the board of the Greensburg Carnegie Library, a member of the South Park Cemetery Board where he was a past president, on the board of directors of the Decatur County Bank and was on the Washington Township Advisory Board. He is survived by a son, Jethro William Meek, Hamburg, Germany; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Eugenia) Lange, Belmont, Mass.; two granddaughters: Katharine Anne (Kitty) Meek, Hamburg, and Margaret Meek (Maggie) Lange, Belmont; and several cousins. He was preceded in death by a sister, Mrs. Eleanor Meek Bash. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. F. William Clemenson officiating and with burial in the South Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the Gilliland-Howe Funeral Home after 5 Tuesday and until 12 noon on Wednesday, and from 12:30 until time of the service at the church. The family suggests that memorials be in the form of donations to the Greensburg Carnegie Library. - kbz