Marietta businessman struck and killed in Kennesaw; no charges planned

Meaders, who went by his middle name, was rushed to WellStar Kennestone Hospital where he died of his injuries.

Police said they do not plan to to charge the driver.

Meaders’ former wife Ansley Meaders served two terms as Marietta’s mayor. Her bid to become the longest serving mayor in the city’s history ended with her re-election defeat in 2001.

She was cooking supper at her Marietta house about 7 p.m. on May 4, 2005, when she suffered a heart attack. She, too, was rushed to Kennestone and died there. She was 59.

A story in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on her death read: “She went to Marietta High School, then attended the University of Georgia for a while. She returned home to earn a different type of degree, which she playfully called a "PHT" — putting her husband through college.”