This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Meador Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IM0.2ACEB/529 Message Board Post: The Portland Leader Portland, TN May 11, 2005 (Page 3) Gary Dale Meador, 56, of Portland died on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 in Nashville. A Sumner Co. native, he was born on March 1, 1949 to Irene Miller Brooks and the late James Mitchell Meador. He was employed as an x-ray technician and had served his country in the United States Army during the Vietnam era. He was a member of the Portland First Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his father, James Mitchell Meador, and grandparents, Rosalee and James Meador and Flora and Grover Miller. He is survived by: his wife, Ann Meador of Portland; one daughter, Beth Meador of Portland; two sons, Jay Meador of Portland and Jeff Meador of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; mother, Irene Brooks of Portland; and sister, Shirley Whittaker of Portland. Funeral services were held on Saturday, May 7, 2005 at Wilkinson-Wiseman Funeral Home. Interment was at Maple Hill Cemetery.