Seymour Tribune - June 7, 2007 
Edith Louise George Meador
May 24, 1922 – June 1, 2007 
Edith Louise George Meador, 85, of Oklahoma City and Half Moon Bay, Calif., passed away Friday, June 1, 2007, in Redwood City, Calif.
Mrs. Meador grew up in Seymour and graduated from Shields High School in 1941. She graduated from Maryville College in Maryville, Tenn., with a degree in physiology. She attended the University of Indiana Medical School in Bloomington for one year and worked for Eli Lilly.
In between her all-consuming responsibilities of raising six children and supporting her husband’s growing medical practice, Edith was active for a time in the youth ministry of Crown Heights Christian Church, served a term as president of the Oklahoma City Twin Club and was an energetic Cub Scout den mother for more than 15 years.
A lifelong swimmer, she trained as a lifeguard and spent many happy days at the pool near her childhood home in Seymour. A basketball player herself in high school, she was very loyal to her Hoosier basketball team and wore her red Hoosier sweatshirt proudly.
After Edith nearly died at age 18 in an operation for a ruptured appendix during which the electricity failed, her father, who owned George’s Battery Shop in Seymour, ensured that the hospital’s emergency batteries were always charged.
Like her parents, who had such beautiful gardens at Sixth and Blish, Edith loved gardening, and she left behind beautiful gardens in every house she ever lived, including her last home in Half Moon Bay.
She was an avid bird watcher and claimed to have sighted an ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas in 1979. She kept up with the endangered whooping crane population wintering in Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Rockport, Texas, and had fond memories of various birding trips she made to Aransas with her sons.
She taught us humility, respect for others, love of nature and how to find the silver lining in any troubling situation. Fly on home, mama. You’re free.
Born May 24, 1922, she was a daughter of Francis Irwin George and Elsie McDougal George, both of whom preceded her in death. She married Dr. Eric B. Meador Jr., who sat next to her in one of her medical school classes, in 1946. He practiced pediatrics in Oklahoma City for 42 years until his death in 1998.
Edith is survived by one sister, six children and their spouses, six grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews, including: sister, Adrienne George Hardesty, Utica; daughter, Patricia Louise Meador and son-in-law Wade D. Shaw, Austin, Texas; son, John Thomas Meador, daughter-in-law Collene and grandchildren Grace and Thomas. Half Moon Bay; son, William Eric Meador, Houston, Texas; son, Robert George Meador and daughter-in-law Barbara, Clearwater, Fla.; son, James Chester Meador, daughter-in-law Franca Cioria and grandchildren Giulia and Kevin, Berkeley, Calif.; son, Richard Lee Meador and grandchildren Kyle and Carly, Denver; and nephew, Thomas Lee Barnett, Seymour.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Norma George Barnett, Seymour.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Miller-Dutra Coastside Funeral Chapel, in Calif.
Friends may call from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City.
Arrangements in Oklahoma City are being handled by Mercer-Adams Funeral Service, Bethany, Okla.