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{{Infobox person
|name=Drewry Meece, Jr.<br>
(Education professor<br>at Campbellsville University in Kentucky)
|image=
|birth_date=June 26, 1928
|birth_place=Russell Springs, [[Kentucky]]
|death_date=August 11, 2009 (aged 81)
|death_place=Campbellsville, Taylor County
|resting_place=Fairview Baptist Church Cemetery in Russell Springs
|reigion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|spouse=Shirley Baker Meece
}}
'''Drewry Meece, Jr. (June 26, 1928 – August 11, 2009), was a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man and a [[professor]] of education from his native central [[Kentucky]]. His last significant position was as at Cambellsville University in Campbellsville in Taylor County, Kentucky.
Meece was one of two sons - a brother died early in life - of Drewry Meece, Sr. (1886-1949), and the former Mauda Wade (1891-1963),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24879704#view-photo=46876558|title=Drewry Meece (1886-1949)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 3, 2017}}</ref> born in Russell Springs in Russell County in southern Kentucky. Called to the ministry at the age of seventeen, Meece was the pastor of several churches in Russell County but had been affiliated with the Lowell Avenue Baptist Church in Campbellsville while on the CU faculty and in retirement thereafter.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=31326|title=
Obituary: Dr. Drewry Meece, Jr., Russell Co., KY native|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|author=Joan McKinney|date=August 14, 2009|accessdate=December 3, 2017}}</ref>
In 1948, Meece received an Associate of Arts degree from [[Methodist]]-affiliated Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky. In 1950, he earned a Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky. He received a master's degree in education in 1957 and a doctorate, also in education, from the [[University of Kentucky]] at Lexington. In 1970, he was awarded a master of divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in [[Louisville]], Kentucky.<ref name=bio/>
He first taught in the public schools of Russell County, then at Georgetown College, and from 1965 to 1991 at Baptist-affiliated Campbellsville University. He also was an instructor at various times at Lindsey Wilson College, Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, and the [[Roman Catholic]] former St. Catharine College near Springfield in Washington County, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/>
Meece was a member of Phi Delta Kappa and the University of Kentucky Alumini Association He made thirteen trips abroad with students to [[Egypt]], [[Israel]], [[Jordan]], [[Athens]], [[Greece]], and [[Rome]]. He made four other trips to [[China]] from 1995 to 1999 to teach [[English]] in the summer. He operated a nursing home ministry at the Fair Oaks Rest Home in Jamestown, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/>
On April 25, 1965, he wed the former Shirley Baker (born 1929), a since retired English professor at Campbellsville University, who survives him. He is interred along with his parents at the Fairview Baptist Church Cemetery in Russell Springs.
==References==
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|name=Drewry Meece, Jr.<br>
(Education professor<br>at Campbellsville University in Kentucky)
|image=
|birth_date=June 26, 1928
|birth_place=Russell Springs, [[Kentucky]]
|death_date=August 11, 2009 (aged 81)
|death_place=Campbellsville, Taylor County
|resting_place=Fairview Baptist Church Cemetery in Russell Springs
|reigion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|spouse=Shirley Baker Meece
}}
'''Drewry Meece, Jr. (June 26, 1928 – August 11, 2009), was a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man and a [[professor]] of education from his native central [[Kentucky]]. His last significant position was as at Cambellsville University in Campbellsville in Taylor County, Kentucky.
Meece was one of two sons - a brother died early in life - of Drewry Meece, Sr. (1886-1949), and the former Mauda Wade (1891-1963),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24879704#view-photo=46876558|title=Drewry Meece (1886-1949)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 3, 2017}}</ref> born in Russell Springs in Russell County in southern Kentucky. Called to the ministry at the age of seventeen, Meece was the pastor of several churches in Russell County but had been affiliated with the Lowell Avenue Baptist Church in Campbellsville while on the CU faculty and in retirement thereafter.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=31326|title=
Obituary: Dr. Drewry Meece, Jr., Russell Co., KY native|publisher=columbiamagazine.com|author=Joan McKinney|date=August 14, 2009|accessdate=December 3, 2017}}</ref>
In 1948, Meece received an Associate of Arts degree from [[Methodist]]-affiliated Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky. In 1950, he earned a Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky. He received a master's degree in education in 1957 and a doctorate, also in education, from the [[University of Kentucky]] at Lexington. In 1970, he was awarded a master of divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in [[Louisville]], Kentucky.<ref name=bio/>
He first taught in the public schools of Russell County, then at Georgetown College, and from 1965 to 1991 at Baptist-affiliated Campbellsville University. He also was an instructor at various times at Lindsey Wilson College, Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, and the [[Roman Catholic]] former St. Catharine College near Springfield in Washington County, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/>
Meece was a member of Phi Delta Kappa and the University of Kentucky Alumini Association He made thirteen trips abroad with students to [[Egypt]], [[Israel]], [[Jordan]], [[Athens]], [[Greece]], and [[Rome]]. He made four other trips to [[China]] from 1995 to 1999 to teach [[English]] in the summer. He operated a nursing home ministry at the Fair Oaks Rest Home in Jamestown, Kentucky.<ref name=bio/>
On April 25, 1965, he wed the former Shirley Baker (born 1929), a since retired English professor at Campbellsville University, who survives him. He is interred along with his parents at the Fairview Baptist Church Cemetery in Russell Springs.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORTMeece, Drewry}}
[[Category:Kentucky]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Clergy]]
[[Category:Baptists]]