Paul R. Meeder, 85, of Center Drive, Oakland Township, Chicora, died at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Butler Memorial Hospital.

He was born in Butler on April 27, 1925, to Earl I. Meeder and Etta Eberhart Meeder.

Paul was a founding member of the Living Word Evangelical Free Church of the Greater Butler Area. He served as a deacon and elder in the church. He worked as a composing room operator and film developer at the Butler Eagle for 48 years.

A veteran of World War II, he was stationed at Mendelsham Air Base, England, and was with the 34th Bomb Group, 7th Squadron. He was an airplane mechanic, reaching corporal status.

Surviving are his wife, Twyla Maharg Meeder; five sons, Kenneth W. and his wife, Vikki, of Boone, Iowa, Keith P. and his wife, Kathie, of Linden, Va., Melvin B. and his wife, Patti, of West Pittsburgh, Matthew E. and his wife, Leslie, of Muncy, and Phillip J. of Chicora; one brother Donald E. and his wife, Patty, Meeder of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; 12 grandchildren; three great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters-in-law.

Mr. Meeder was preceded in death by one sister, Mildred Miller.

<B>MEEDER</B> - Friends of Paul R. Meeder, who died Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, will be received at the <B>Thompson-Miller Funeral Home</B>, 124 E. North St., Butler, on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.Services will be at the funeral home at 8 p.m. Sunday with Pastor William Glassman of Living Word Church officiating. Interment in Greenlawn Burial Estates.Officers and members of the American Legion Post 778 will assemble at the funeral home Sunday at 6:15 p.m. to conduct military honors.