Longmont Ledger.
Dec. 21, 1948
M. G. Mead, 73, a native of the Highlandlake district northeast of Longmont, died Tuesday while being taken to the Longmont hospital in an ambulance. He had been ill for several years.
The town of Mead was named from Mr. Mead's family. Both Mead and Highlandlake are in the southwestern part of Weld County.
For years M. G. Mead was a director of the Mountain States Beet Growers Marketing association.
Fishing resort which he operated at Highlandlake was widely patronized. He also was engaged in farming.
Mr. Mead was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage shortly before his death.
Malcolm G. Mead was born at Highlandlake Sept. 6, 1875.
He married Florence Baker, a member of another Highlandlake district pioneer family, Dec. 30, 1903.
The Mead family first had settled at the old Longmont colony in 1871 and helped to organize the colony and establish the first Congregational church there. They moved to the Highlandlake section in 1874, founded that colony and established the old church that still is there.
Mr. Mead had lived in the same house since his birth.
A member of the United Brethren church at Mead, he also was a member of the Masonic lodge in Longmont and the Blue lodge of the Masons at Berthoud.
Surviving relatives are his wife, Mrs. Florence Mead, and a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Scott, both of Highlandlake; another daughter, Mrs. Mary Jensen of Englewood, Colo., and one brother, Rufus Mead of Pasadena, Calif. Six grandchildren are also living.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from Lewellen chapel in Longmont with interment in the old Highlandlake Cemetery.
Highlandlake Pioneer Dies on Way to Hospital
Longmont, Dec. 21 - (AP)
M. G. Mead, 73, a native of the Highlandlake section near here, died today in an ambulance en route to a hospital. He had been ill for several months.
Mead was a member of a pioneer family which settled here with the original Longmont colony. The resort which he operated at Highland Lake is known to fishermen throughout the state.
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