Leonard Meek

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    Reported missing in France, is Pvt. Leonard Meek, son of Mrs. Asa (Mariah) Meek, city. The telegram stated that he had been missing in France since July 10 and that any other information available would be sent his mother. The boy was 19 and entered the service on September 27, 1943. A picture of Pvt. Meek was included in the July 13 issue of the Herald.

Paintsville Herald Thursday August 10, 1944

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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.)