Funeral service for Katherine Irene Meek will be at 2:00 p.m Thursday, November 15, 2018 at the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Phil Jones, Lawton, officiating.

Entombment in the Chapel of Peace Mausoleum at Sunset Memorial Gardens will follow under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

The family will greet friends Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

Katherine Irene Meek, 95, long-time Lawton resident, passed away Friday, November 9, 2018 at her home in Lawton. Katherine was born September 14, 1923 in Alexandria, Louisiana to William Ray and Alice Louise (Merz) Moss. She moved to Memphis, Tennessee as a young child. She graduated from Central High School in Memphis and attended Memphis State College. For six years she was employed as a stewardess for Chicago & Southern Airlines. On December 29, 1951 she married MAJ Melton Price Meek, M.D. They lived in San Antonio, Texas and Ft. Devens, Massachusetts before moving to Lawton in 1954.

Mrs. Meek's volunteer activities were served as a Red Cross Gray Lady; chairman of the International Affairs Department of the Lawton Women's Forum; Bluebird and Campfire leader; president of the Comanche County Women's Medical Auxiliary; past board member of the Lawton Philharmonic Society. She was a member of chapter BY, PEO Sisterhood; the Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society; a member of Centenary United Methodist Church. She and her husband were active members in the Ft. Sill Allied Officers program. They were awarded Citizens of the Arts in 1995 by the Lawton Arts and Humanities Council.

She is survived by five children and their spouses, John William Meek and Patricia, Oklahoma City, Melody Brink, Lawton, Dr. Brian Meek, Lawton, Bruce Meek and Cindy, Owasso, Joanna Smith and Michael, Paso Robles, California, eleven grandchildren, Angela Patrick and Chris, Ashley Humphreys and Scott, Katie Brinlee and David, Cameron Meek and Casey, Justin Meek and Chelsea, Brandon Meek and Deanna, Shane Brink and Amy, Megan Brink, Hannah and Abigail Smith, 14 great grandchildren, two nieces, Alice Clay Sullivan, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Dorothy McFarlin, Coldwater, Mississippi, two nephews, Dr. Giltz Croley of Concord, North Carolina and John Croley of Humble, Texas, a special friend, Ladye Gene Casey of Memphis, Tennessee.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two sisters, Dorothy Croley and Lucille Moss.

Memorial contributions may be made to Centenary United Methodist Church, 704 SW D Ave., Lawton, OK 73501, The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13 ^th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73104-5097 or to a charity of the donor's choice.