Alice Gene Meacham
FREDERICK - Alice Gene Meacham, 93, recently of
Urbana, Maryland, passed from this life on Friday,
April 15, 2022.
Alice Gene was born September 14, 1928, in
Clinton, Oklahoma, to Jesse Glenn and Zelda Mae
(Potter) Stratton and graduated from Clinton High
School in 1946. She wed Edgar Morris Meacham in 1948, and they were married for 66 years. Alice
Gene was the last music education graduate from
Oklahoma A&M College before it became Oklahoma State University in 1957. She received her
Masters in Guidance and Counseling in 1970 from
West Texas State University.
Alice Gene was a public school music educator in Oklahoma and Texas before moving to Kansas in 1970. She served as a High School Counselor at
Center High School in Kansas City, Missouri, before retiring in 1994. She thrived on working with the wonderful young people there and especially enjoyed sponsoring and directing the 87th Street Gang, a contemporary folk-rock group that entertained throughout the greater metropolitan area for more than 25 years. She also sponsored several substance abuse prevention groups: FRIENDS and HI-STEP.
More recently, she was an active member of the Overland Park Church of Christ in Kansas for 39 years, the Alameda Church of Christ in Norman, Oklahoma, for eight years, the Fuquay-Varina Church of Christ in North Carolina for one year, and the Rockville Church of Christ in Maryland for two years. Her home church will always be Frisco Avenue, then Custer Avenue, Church of Christ in Oklahoma, where she was taught and nurtured in her Christian faith.
She is survived by her daughter Christi Meacham of Norman, Oklahoma; grandson Kris ( Jennifer) Weidling and great-granddaughters Madison and Brooklyn of Urbana, Maryland; two grandsons Jesse Murphy of Lawrence, Kansas, and Jimmy Murphy of Kansas City, Kansas; brother David (Emily) Stratton of Norman, Oklahoma; sister Marsie (Eddie) Walton of Lawrenceville, Georgia; special relatives Pete and Connie Doughty and Michael Meacham of Norman, Oklahoma; and many family members, friends and former students whom she cherishes forever. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother Jesse Glenn Stratton; husband Edgar Meacham; daughter Cathey Snell; and granddaughter Sandy Allen.
“I was blessed to have lived with grandson Kris and his wife and daughters the last five years in North Carolina and Maryland. What a wonderful way to end life’s journey with people you love the most.” Alice Gene Meacham, 2022.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, April 30th, at 2:00 p.m. at the Custer Avenue Church of Christ, 2601 Custer Ave., Clinton, Oklahoma, with a meet and greet following. Interment will be at the Clinton City Cemetery at 4:00 p.m. The 2:00 p.m. service will be livestreamed on the YouTube channel, Custer Avenue Church of Christ. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Westview Boys’ Home, 120 W. Broadway, Hollis, OK 73550, or a charity of your choice.