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Siloam Presbyterian Church 260 JEFFERSON AVENUE Brooklyn, New York Dr. Milton A. Galamison, Pastor [[images - black & white photographs of parts of George Edward Meares life]] FUNERAL SERVICE George Edward Meares Tuesday, February 11, 1975 OBITUARY GEORGE E. MEARES, son of the late Gaston Wright Meares and Louise F. Jones Meares departed this life Thursday, February 6, 1975 in Cumberland Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, after a brief illness. He was born December 11, 1909 in Laurinburg, N.C. and reared in Greensboro, N.C. He was educated in the Public Schools of Greensboro N.C. He attended Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C. and graduated from New York University with a B.S. Degree in Sociology. He did graduate work at Atlanta University Graduate School of Arts and Science. He is a New York State Certified Social Worker. Mr. Meares for more than 29 years was a Probation Officer in the Probation Department of the Supreme Court, State of New York, 2nd Judicial District, Brooklyn, N.Y. He set up the first branch of the Urban League in the State of Arizona at Phoenix and was the Dean of Men at Alabama State College, Montgomery, Alabama. During World War II he was a YMCA-USO Club Director. He was Director of Social Service, Penitentiary City of New York and Social Worker, New York State Training School for Boys. He was a member of the Board of Managers, Carlton Avenue Branch YMCA. Member, former Clerk of Session and Ruling Elder of Siloam Presbyterian Church. Life member NAACP and member Prince Hall Masons, St. Cecile Lodge No. 68. He was Chairman of Several Financial Campaigns in the Community, and served his Fraternity in the following capacities: Chapter Basileus, District Representative, served on several National Committees, Chaiman of the National Talent Hunt, First Vice Grand Basileus and Grand Basileus 1964-67. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. He served as Toastmaster for numerous Public Meetings, worked on numerous Planning Committees of Community Organizations, has appeared as Guest Speaker on many occasions, prepared and participated in a thirteen week Radio Panel Series on Delinquency and Crime over Radio Station WNYC, and recipient of many awards. Mr. Meares is survived by his devoted wife, Minnie; a brother, Walter; sister, Louise Moore and two nephews, Walter and Ronald Meares and a host of other relatives and many friends. Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark... THE FAMILY 24
