Kevan S. Meador

Kevan Meador, 61, of Huckabay, died Tuesday, February, 5, 2013 in Eastland County. Funeral services for Kevan will be held at 2:00 PM Sunday, at Stephenville Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be held 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Saturday at the funeral home. Kevan Meador was born to be a cowboy. His mother, Joyce, went into labor with her only son soon after attending the Ft. Worth Stock Show and Rodeo in late January 1952 along with her husband, the late Homer Orren Meador, and their daughter Kerry Meador Fenoglio. Kevan's fate was sealed. After graduating from Azle High School, he went on to Tarleton State University and joined the rodeo team - specializing in riding bareback broncs and bulldogging steers. After college, he traveled the country with a rodeo producer for five years. In his spare time, Kevan later made and sold custom spurs. Handsome like his Daddy, he was rarely seen without his trademark cowboy hat and boots. Like all cowboys, Kevan eventually settled down. He worked as a building official for the city of Benbrook for two decades and in the spring of 1993 married Marilyn Meador. When asked why he had waited until he was 40 years old to get married, Kevan was known to reply "I was waiting for Marilyn." He was also waiting for her two children - Cade McGibboney and Kasi Miller - and he cherished playing the role of Dad. Of Kevan, Kasi wrote: "As much as I love every person in my life, he was 'my person'." Kasi and her husband Rob Miller are the parents of Kevan's much-loved grandson, Mason. Kevan is also survived by nieces and nephews, who have always adored their cowboy Uncle. Kevan, who always pined for the open range, achieved his life's goal after retiring from his work in Benbrook. He moved to the country - Huckabay, Texas to be exact -- and built the home he had always dreamed about - built it with his own two hands. Things weren't perfect -- Kevan battled lung cancer for the last year, but found support in that battle from Church of Christ Huckabay. "They just showed up one Sunday at our church door step," said the pastor. "The next thing we knew we were walking with them through the most difficult battle of their lives." Kevan got better and came back to the country. He also got to keep doing what he loved -- taking family and friends on tours around the property, a tour that ended in the family room with Kevan drinking his ever-present coffee, telling colorful stories and laughing that great, easy laugh of his. He was home. Memorials: Please send donations to MD Anderson Cancer Center, www.mdanderson.org/gifts, or Foster's Home for Children in Stephenville, fostershome.org/giving-2.