Flemon Meade

FLEMON MEADE, age 91, died February 3, 2011 at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center, Memphis, TN following an extended illness and hospitalization. He was born and raised in Marshall County Alabama. He graduated from Arab High School where he was a star athlete and attended Jacksonville State College where he played football prior to entering military service. During WWII he was assigned with General Patton’s army and fought through Africa and into Sicily where he received a paralyzing wound which necessitated use of a wheelchair for the rest of his life. While a patient at the VA Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, he along with several other paralyzed veterans enrolled in school at Memphis State College and he was the first one of the group to graduate in 1950. Following graduation from college, he worked for several years in the private sector before entering the Government Service where he completed 30 years while assigned to the Supply Department at Millington Naval Air Station. Flemon especially enjoyed gardening on his land in Fayette County and fishing off of the Gulf State Park pier in Gulf Shores Alabama. He worshiped at the Park Avenue Church of Christ where he was an active member. He is survived by his wife Ann of 58 years of their Memphis home; one sister, Helen Meade of Union Grove, Alabama; one niece, Jan Pardue (Richard) of Roswell, GA; two nephews, Don Elrod (Judy) and Robert Elrod (Patricia) of Arab, Alabama and their families. Funeral services will be held at Memphis Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens, Poplar Ave, Saturday, February 5 at 11 a.m. Burial will be in the Mt. View Cemetery, Union Grove, AL, Monday, February 7 at 1 p.m.