Died
at age 95
in Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, USA
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"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNB4-VLK : accessed 28 November 2016), Paul S Meares in household of Richard M Meares, Anona, Pinellas, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 143, sheet 4A, line 3, family 24, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 229; FHL microfilm 1,820,229.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SB6N-M2M : accessed 12 October 2020), Paul S Mears in household of Richard M Mears, Anona, Pinellas, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 41, sheet 1B, line 79, family 19, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 330; FHL microfilm 2,340,065.
"Florida State Census, 1935," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNKM-3G5 : 2 February 2018), Paul S Mears in household of Richard M Mears, Largo, Pinellas, Florida; citing line 6, State Archives, Tallahassee; FHL microfilm 2,425,169.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTCV-KZX : 20 May 2020), Paul Meares in household of R M Meares, Election Precinct 50, Pinellas, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 52-80, sheet 4B, line 64, family 93, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 611.
"Florida State Census, 1945," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNNN-C85 : 9 August 2017), Paul S Meares, , Pinellas, Florida; citing line 34, State Archives, Tallahassee; FHL microfilm 2,425,205.
Burial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185429033/paul-s-meares: accessed 13 September 2022), memorial page for Paul S Meares (1912–2008), Find A Grave: Memorial #185429033, citing Sarasota Memorial Park, Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida, USA; Maintained by Dan Miller (contributor 47864760) .
"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKRP-QDNV : 26 October 2016), Mary Bernice Meares Morris in entry for Mr Paul Sherman Meares, Florida, United States, 16 Sep 2008; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Sarasota Herald-Tribune, born-digital text.
[Oct. 11, 1912 - Sept. 13, 2008 Paul Sherman Meares, age 95 died Sept. 13, 2008, at Camellia Gardens of Life Care in Thomasville[, Thomas County, Georgia] recently moved from Florida to Thomasville, Ga., graveside services: Sarasota Memorial Park Cemetery in Sarasota, Fla born Oct. 11, 1912, in Indian Rocks[, Pinellas County], Fla son of the late Richard Maurice Sr. and Sylvia Sherman Meares Preceded in death by wife Maudelle Morse Meares; brothers Richard Maurice Meares Jr. and Virgil Meares; and sisters Mary Bernice Meares Morris and Velma Meares Beitler Mowry. retired 1975 from Gulf Coast Nurseries landscape architect and the nursery owner Survivors daughters Betty Ann Meares Courson and husband, Roger, and Mary Evelyn Meares, both of Thomasville; son Norman Paul Meares of Thomasville; grandchildren and great-grandchildren brother John L. Meares Allen & Allen Funeral Home handled arrangements.]
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