Elmo L. Meek Obituary

July 18, 1914 - October 4, 2007

Elmo L. Meek was born on July 18, 1914 in Arkansas City, Kansas, the son of Wilbur Preston Meek and Mabel Akin Meek. He attended Ark City public schools and attended Arkansas City Junior College (now Cowley College) for two years. He moved to Wichita and served as a mechanical engineer at Boeing, and then at Murdock Machine and Engineering Co., of which he became owner until his retirement.

While he was working at Boeing, Elmo obtained lodging as a boarder in the home of a family named Craig in Wichita. Their daughter, Margaret Dorothy, was attending Wichita University at the time. Elmo began dating Margaret, and the two were married on April 17, 1939. Margaret died on July 11, 1997, after 58 years of marriage.

Elmo died Thursday, October 4, 2007 in his home in Wichita, at the age of 93. A Memorial Service will be held at 3:30 pm Wednesday, October 10 at the Downing & Lahey East Side Chapel, 6555 East Central, in Wichita, Kansas. James T. Bartsch, Pastor of Flint Hills Community Church of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, will conduct the service. Burial will take place in a private, family service Thursday, October 11, at 10:00 am at Riverview Cemetery in Arkansas City, Kansas.

Elmo was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret; his sisters, Patricia Winfrey and Mary Ellen Meek; and his brothers, Bill and Newell Meek.

His survivors include his son, Mark Alan Meek, of Tampa, Florida; his daughters, Mary Margaret Magathan, of Cedar Point, Kansas, and Marcia Lee Dew, of Denver, Colorado; his grandchildren, John William Davis and Holly Marie Meek; and his great-grandchildren, Joshua Lee Davis, Jessica Craig Davis, and Abigail Rae Davis. Memorials may be given to Margaret Craig Meek Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund, care of WSU Endowment Association, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67208.

Compliments of Flint Hills Community Church, Cottonwood Falls, KS.