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MEADE – JT (Jake) Powell, age 75, passed away early Thursday morning, December 23, 2021, at his Meade, Kansas, residence.

He was born September 28, 1946, at Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Loyal Ned and Barbara Leona (Bray) Powell. As a young boy, he attended the Meade school system, graduating from Meade High School in 1964. After his graduation, he joined the United States Navy, serving aboard the USS Hancock for four years. Upon his discharge, he returned to Meade and began working for the Phillips 66 filling station for several years. He later began his career at CMS Electric as a lineman and later as a meter technician, for forty-three years.

He was a member of the Meade United Methodist Church and the Helping Hands Humane Society. He enjoyed fishing and fly fishing; hunting coyotes, prairie dogs, pheasant, and dove; metal detecting; arrowhead hunting; motorcycles; working cattle for Carl Sanders; farming; playing online card games; music, playing the piano, horns, and drums; and was known for his quick wit, compassion to others and sharing a good joke with his family and friends.

On January 9, 1983, he married Judy Tournade at the First Baptist Church in Plains, Kansas. She survives.

Other survivors include two daughters, Marley Baum and husband Steve of Topeka, Kansas, and Haley Crain and husband Russell of Perryton, Texas; three grandchildren, Lincoln Baum, Sami Baum, and Raegan Crain; and several adopted sons, daughters, grandchildren, and family members.

He is preceded in death by his parents.

Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, January 6, 2022, at the United Methodist Church, Meade. In accordance to his request, cremation has taken place. Inurnment will follow the memorial service in the Graceland Cemetery, Meade.

The family would welcome memorials to the Darting Basketball Academy of Topeka for underprivileged children or the Ronald McDonald Bernstein House of Kansas City, Missouri, in care of the funeral home.

For those that wish to view the service from a distance, it will be live  streamed through the funeral home's Facebook page.