OCR Text |
Show n SMITHFIELD MAN ' KILLED BY THIEVES Donald Paul Meikle Victim of Gunplay ! : Donald Paul Meikle, 25, native U of Smithfield who had lived in -i Glendale, Cal., for ten years, was shot and killed Saturday night by :: two youths whom he surprised c when they were ransaking his j home, relatives in Smithfield learned Monday. According to reports, Mr. and : Mrs. Meikle and their two children child-ren and a brother of Mrs. Meikle had Ireturned from a wedding reception in Burbank. Cal., when they heard their radio tuned to police calls. i: Mr. Meikle was reported to have called out and two shots -- were fired by the youths from an adjoining bedroom. The assailants ran through the room and Mr. L Meikle followed them to the front steps where he collapsed. He died I later at the Physicians and Sur-geons Sur-geons hospital in Glendale. - He was born June 18, 1919 in Smithfield, a son of Joseph A. and Tempie Allen Meikle. He was educated in Cache county schools ; and then moved to California where he was employed by a pie " company. He married Jackie Orey 1 in August, 1940. Survivors include his widow, ' two sons, Garry and Larry Meikle, f Glendale; his parents, Smithfield, t!- and the following brothers and il: sisters: Mrs. Marguerite Raymond. Smithfield; Mrs. Mary Beutler. and Mrs. Lenora Peterson, Logan; t Mrs. Iris Hancey and Mrs. Zelda Brown, Astoria, Ore., Allen Meikle, Mei-kle, Billings, Mont.; Mrs. Louise i Adams and Earl Meikle, Burbank, Cal., and Frank Meikle, with the armed forces -in India. ; Funeral services and burial will : be conducted in Glendale, Calif. |