Meeks, Fontaine Lafayette (1856-1923)

MEEKS, BREWER, BONEBRIGHT, JOHNSTON, LONG

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 6/1/2023 at 15:13:32

Webster City Daily News
Webster City, Iowa
Tuesday, June 19, 1923

Remains of Lafe Meeks Arrive Here Today

Former Webster City Resident Killed in Automobile Accident Near Tama Sunday - Funeral Services to be Held Here

The remains of F.L. Meeks, of Marshalltown, a well known former resident of this city, who was killed Sunday in an automobile accident, are expected to arrive here this evening from Tama and the funeral will be held tomorrow or next day.

Telephone advices received today by F.H. Bonebright, state that a daughter of Mr. Meeks, Mrs. Will Long, of Belle Plaine is enroute to this city overland in a car and other relatives will arrive. "Lafe" Meeks, as he was familiarly known in this community, was killed Sunday, June 17th, when an automobile in which he, with three companions was riding, ran into a bridge over the Iowa River, two miles west of Tama, killing two of the car's occupants and hurling the third into the river from whence she was rescued. H.C. Hammer, of the fire department of Marshalltown was driving the car, and his wife was killed when the accident occured. No further particulars of the terrible affair are known.

"Lafe" Meeks left this city about twenty-five years ago for Marshalltown. His wife, who was a sister to Mrs. Sarah Brewer Bonebright, 222 Ohio street, died about twenty years ago. She was a daughter of Wilson Brewer, the first white settler of Webster City. One daughter of Mr. Meeks, Mrs. Johnston, passed away about two years ago and the remaining children are: Mrs. Will Long, Marshalltown and Lee Meeks, residing in California. A grandson, Gene Johnston is a ward of Mrs. Harriett Closz of this city.

[his wife was Margaret Brewer]

Webster City Daily News
Webster City, Iowa
Wednesday, June 20, 1923

The funeral services for the late F.L. Meeks, of Marshalltown, a former resident who was killed in an automobile accident near Tama on Sunday, were held this afternoon at 11 o'clock at the Foster chapel. They were conducted by Rev. George Wood, pastor of the Universalist church. The remains were brought here last night by a daughter, Mrs. Will Long and husband, of Belle Plaine.