MRS. GERALDINE MEEKS TEAL

Mrs. Geraldine Meeks Teal, 86, of Meansville, died Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at Harborview Nursing Care.
Funeral services for Mrs. Teal will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 11: 00 AM in the Chapel of the Fletcher-Day Funeral Home. Rev. Milton Hill will officiate and burial will follow in South View Cemetery. The family of Mrs. Teal will receive friends at Fletcher-Day Funeral Home on Saturday from 10:00 AM until the funeral hour.
Mrs. Teal was born on February 25, 1930 in Upson County and was the last surviving daughter of the late Sheriff Grady and Mattie Spinks Meeks. She was a graduate of R. E. Lee Institute.
Mrs. Teal was employed for a number of years with the Owens Illinois Glass Company in Atlanta. From 1960 until 1963 she managed a local drive-in and teenage gathering place, Roy's Drive In. Until her retirement she was a bookkeeper for the Miller Cabinet Company in Forest Park. She was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Mrs. Teal loved her nieces and nephews and had a special way of making each one of them feel that he or she was her favorite.
Mrs. Teal is survived by three nieces, Sandy Dickens Mock of Thomaston, Christy (Jerry) Chapman of Meansville, and Melva Wade Thomas of Kodak, TN; four nephews, Larry Meeks and Wallace Wade, both of Los Angeles, CA, Gary (Madge) Wise of Panama City, FL, and Jerry (Diane) Wade of Detroit, MI; and numerous great nieces and great nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Teal; brothers Maurice Meeks and Troy Meeks; sisters Myrtle Meeks Wade, Maude Meeks Hoyle, Gertrude Meeks Wise, and Margie Meeks Dickens; and nephews Roland Wise, Jack Wade and Dan Hoyle.
Fletcher-Day Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Condolences and remembrances may be expressed at www.fletcherdayfuneralhome.com