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Kelsey Shelton Smith-Briggs died on October 11, 2005, at the home of her mother, Raye Dawn Smith, and her stepfather, Michael Lee Porter, in Meeker, Oklahoma. Her death was ruled a homicide from blunt force trauma to the abdomen. [1]
Michael Thomas Meeker (February 23, 1958 – June 5, 2024) [1] was a Canadian professional ice hockey center who played four games in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 1978–79 season.
Meeker's grave at Graceland Cemetery. Letters he wrote to his family from Europe in the 1930s suggest he was homosexual. [12] He had a thirty-year relationship with Robert Molnar, with whom he lived from at least 1940 until Meeker's death in their New York City home on October 22, 1971. [12] Meeker named Molnar his heir. [12]
Later, Volkman's WKY-TV colleague Frank McGee tipped him off about another tornado approaching Meeker, Oklahoma. [9] While the tornado destroyed the town, nobody was hurt and one resident told the Associated Press, "God bless Harry Volkman." [10] This eventually resulted in the government lifting its ban on tornado warnings. [11]
A former variant name was Cochranton, [1] after Col. William Cochran, the original owner of the town site. [2] A post office called Cochranton was established in 1829, the name was changed to Meeker in 1908, and the post office closed in 1943. [3]
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Meeker, Martin. Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s–1970s. Archived 2006-12-11 at the Wayback Machine University of Chicago Press, 2006. Meaker, Marijane. Introduction. Spring Fire. Written by Vin Packer. Cleis Press, 2004. A summary of a joint talk given by Marijane Meaker and Ann Bannon in June 2004; Breen ...
Wallace Ralston Westlake (August 27, 1907 – December 9, 1978) was an American politician of the Republican Party from the U.S. state of Ohio.He was the 47th mayor of Columbus, Ohio and the 43rd person to serve in that office.