Richard Meggs
Posted: February 27, 2009
PALMETTO —Richard Franklin Meggs, 47, died Feb. 24, 2009, in Hamilton, Ala. Services were today at 11:30 a.m. at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W.E. Pegues Funeral Home in Tupelo with the Rev. J.C. Burks and Dr. George Forbes officiating. Burial followed at Lee Memorial Park. Mr. Meggs was born June 18, 1961, in Tupelo to the late Gene and Maggie Evelyn Davis Meggs. He graduated from Aberdeen High School in 1979 and attended Itawamba Community College and The University of Mississippi. After high school he joined the Mississippi Army National Guard. He was a truck driver for Capital Bedding for a number of years and a bus driver for the Lee County schools, where he was active in the school district booster clubs. He attended Chesterville Baptist Church. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Robyn Renee Simmons Meggs. He is survived by his daughter, Amanda Lynn Meggs Scruggs of Palmetto; sons, Richard Brandon Meggs and Blake Gene Meggs, both of Palmetto; sisters, Sylvia Jean Meggs Palmer of Tupelo and Linda Carol Meggs Gill of Aberdeen; brother, Michael Hugh Meggs of Columbus; and four grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Austin Scruggs, Jonathan Hastings, David Box Jr., Cole Hoskins, Albert McShan and Chris Smith.
