Pickering Funeral Home

When I come to the end of the day

And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.
Why cry for a soul set free?

Miss me a little, but not too long
And not with your head bowed low.
Remember the love that we once shared-
Miss me, but let me go.

For this is a journey we all must take
And each must go alone.
It’s all a part of the Maker’s plan,
A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely and sick at heart
Go to the friends we know
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds-

Miss me, but let me go.

Katie V. Meador, 77, formerly of Mexico, died at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, 2002, at Western Missouri Medical Center in Warrensburg, Mo.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002, at 2 p.m. at Pickering Funeral Home with the Rev. Eldon Wilson officiating. Visitation will be Tuesday from noon until the time of the service at the funeral home. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Park.

Mrs. Meador was born on Dec. 20, 1924, in Monroe County, the daughter of Carl and Ruth Vogel Potter. On May 1, 1968, in Centralia, she married Raymond L. Meador, who died on July 11, 1994.

Survivors include three sons, James Seabolt Sr., New Castle, Ind., Sammy Lamberson, Palmyra, and Marion Lamberson, Hannibal; five daughters, Mrs. Faye Johnson and Mrs. Fannie Garrett, both of Mexico, Mrs. Bessie Corcoran, Oak Grove, Mrs. Connie Garrlets, Shelbina, and Mrs. Beulah Arrowood, of the state of North Carolina; one brother, William Dean Potter, Grays Rivers, Wash.; two sisters, Mrs. Martha Jordan, Oak Grove, and Mrs. Iola Meeks, Centralia; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren; three stepsons, Charles Meador, Wellsville, Bobby Meador, Mexico, and Glen Meador, Jefferson City; two stepdaughters, Ellen Dickerson, Jacksonville, Florida, and Paula Collett, Jackson, Mississippi.

Her husband, three brothers and four sisters preceded her in death.