Dee Hunter Meeks, 65, of the Lands Crossing community in Irwin County, Georgia, died Saturday, March 15, 2025, at Dorminy Medical Center in Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Graveside services will be held 2 PM, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at Irwinville Cemetery in Irwinville, Georgia, with the Rev. Kerry Walker officiating. The family will greet friends at the graveside one hour prior to the services on Tuesday.
Dee was born February 23, 1960, in Fitzgerald, Georgia, to Margaret McGee Hunter and the late Calvin “Bud” Hunter. She was a 1978 graduate of Fitzgerald High School. She studied accounting and bookkeeping at Ben Hill-Irwin Tech. She worked in payroll for Irwin Manufacturing and was a paraprofessional at Irwin County Middle School. She loved growing flowers and spending time in her yard.
She is survived by her husband of 45 years, Lloyd Meeks of Lands Crossing; two sons: Calvin Douglas Meeks & his wife Charlotte Leslie Meeks of Abbeville and Benjamin Talton Meeks of Dallas, Texas; one granddaughter, Allie Meeks; her mother, Margaret M. Hunter of Fitzgerald; two sisters: Debbie Hunter Cobb & Larry of Fitzgerald and Susie Hunter Wynn & Ellis of Leesburg; as well as many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father.
Paulk Funeral Home, Fitzgerald, is in charge of arrangements.