Fern Meeker

Fern L. Meeker, of Wellington, died Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at Sumner Regional Medical Center in Wellington at the age of 85.

Fern was born the daughter of M.L. and Lucy (Mason) Miller on Sunday, February 9, 1930 in Blackwell, Okla. She was raised and educated in Oklahoma graduating from Blackwell High School. Fern later graduated from Wichita State University and began her 20 year career as a teacher at Caldwell High School. 

On June 5, 1949, Fern and Bobbie Meeker were united in marriage in South Haven. Together they celebrated 66 years of marriage.

She was a member of both the Kappa Kappa Iota sorority and the First United Methodist Church where she served as the historian and church library board member. 

Survivors include her husband, Bobbie Meeker of Wellington; daughter, Mary Beth McDonald of Little Rock, Arkansas; son, Steven Meeker and his wife Mary of Wellington; son, Ross Meeker and his wife Dana of Wellington; grandchildren: Michael McDonald and his wife Tara, Rebekah Pope and her husband David, James McDonald and his wife Renee, John David McDonald, Michael Meeker and his wife Melissa, Ann Meeker, Hollie Gulick and her husband Clint, Megan Ginter and her husband James, Craig Meeker and his wife Melissa; great-grandchildren: Ashton, Elizabeth and Chloe McDonald, Elizabeth, David, Jr., and Dennis Pope, Kaylyn McDonald, Sydney and Kynsley Meeker, Heidi, Haley and Georgia Gulick, Payton, Claire and Harper Ginter, Laney and Allie Meeker. 

She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Dorothy Brickell.

Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 1 – 8 p.m., Thursday, October 1, 2015 with the family present from 6 – 8 p.m.

Funeral services for Fern will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, October 2, 2015 at First United Methodist Church, Wellington.

Interment will follow at the Osborne Cemetery, Mayfield.

Memorial contributions have been established in her loving memory to the First United Methodist Church or the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Contributions may be mailed or left with the funeral home.

To share a memory or leave condolences, please visit www.cornejodayfuneralhome.com

Arrangements are by Cornejo|Day Funeral Home & Crematory, Wellington.