Mrs. Myrtle Lee (Scroggins) Meeks [48596]

Mrs. Myrtle Lee (Scroggins) Meeks        
1931-2009
Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle Lee Scroggins Meeks, 77, of Bastrop will be held 2 p.m. Thursday, January 8, 2009 at the Chapel of Cox Funeral Home of Bastrop with Bishop Kelvin Copeland and the Rev. Jeff Smart officiating. Interment will follow at the Hughes Chapel Cemetery under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.
Visitation with the family will be Wednesday evening, January 7, from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Myrtle Lee Scroggins Meeks, a professional seamstress and homemaker, was born March 27, 1931 near Crossett, Ark. to the late Julis Robert Scroggins and Cora Lee Waites Scroggins. She died Saturday, January 3, 2009 at Morehouse General Hospital.
Mrs. Meeks is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Henry Jasper Meeks; a son, Louie Emanuel, a stepson, Henry J. Meeks Jr.; three brothers, Robert Martin Scroggins, Allen Scroggins, and James Scroggins; a brother-in-law, James William Bounds, and a sister-in-law, Connie Ruth Scroggins.
Mrs. Meeks is survived by three sons, Henry Marvin Meeks of Dallas, Texas, Mark A. Meeks of Houma, and Lee Roy Emanuel of Bastrop; a daughter, Mary Margaret Strickland of Houma; two stepdaughters, Fay Brown of Mena, Ark. and Kay Yarberry of Maumelle, Ark., two brothers, Howard Scroggins and his wife, Martha Jane Scroggins, and Floyd Earl Scroggins; five sisters, Agnes Scroggins Carter, Deloris Scroggins May and her husband, Joe Alvin May, Hixie Scroggins Bounds, Ada Beatrice Scroggins Nealy and husband, George Donald Nealy, Bertha Lou Scroggins Fortune and her husband, Darwin Fortune; two sisters-in-laws, Mary Ruth Scroggins and Bonnie Scroggins; 15 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Serving as pallbearers are Tommy Scroggins, Michael Scroggins, Aubrey Scroggins, Ronald Scroggins, Alvin May, Zachary Meeks, Kile Martin, and Henry Marvin Meeks.

Published in the Bastrop Daily Enterprise from 1/6/2009 - 6/6/2009