Darrell Dee Meadows was born November 20, 1920 in Bristow, Ok to Gordon Meadows and Laura Belle Warram Meadows. During his growing up they lived in Arkansas near what is now Cherokee Village, then Pryor, Oklahoma before moving to Gypsy, Oklahoma where he graduated from high school in 1939.
He worked on the family farm until he entered the Navy during WWII. He served on the USS Intrepid as a radar operator. He was wounded during the Kamikaze attack during the battle of the Philippines. He spent 18 months in the hospital in Oakland, CA and was discharged from the Navy and awarded the Purple Heart.
He was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church in Henryetta where he led the singing for many years. He enjoyed community service and was active in the annual Labor Day Parade. He worked for PPG in Henryetta in the stock room handling paper work on shipments of glass out of the plant. When PPG closed he went to work for the Credit Union until he retired.. He and Nona Mae Dowdy Bowles were united in marriage on April 28,1953 at the Free Will Baptist Church in Bristow where Nona Mae was a member.
He is preceded in death by his wife Nona Mae in 1987, his brothers and sisters: Lela Mae Book, Castle Hoyt, Girland Pulley, Debs Meadows, Ruby Owens and Cecil Meadows.
Survived By: Daughter: Karen Sue Weatherman of Henryetta, Son: Dr. Tom Bowles of Oklahoma City, OK, Grandchildren: Michael Bowles of Winston Salem, NC, Jeff Bowles of Boston, Mass, Scott Weatherman of Tahlequah, OK.
Services will be 2:00pm, Saturday, December 3, 2005 at the Free Will Baptist Church with Brother Albert Collier officiating.
Interment will follow at the Westlawn Cemetery under the direction of the Rogers Funeral Home.
