Happy Birthday, Rep. Carrie Meek. May your legacy continue to live on and inspire us all.

She was such a wonderful woman that did a lot of great things for the community. Her grace will be greatly missed.

I volunteered in Carrie Meek's office in Northside shopping center while I was in college many many years ago. I'll always treasure those experiences. 

Prayers and condolences to the Meek family. My aunt the late Doris Taylor Ison, one of the Founders of CHI Health Center, met Professor Meek in '74 when she made a trip on the hill, our family legacy began from their meeting. My esteem meeting her when she opened the Business Incubator Center in Homestead and I was selected as the caterer for the grand opening, She smiled seeing her name carved on cantaloupes on top of pineapples. My son Kevin G. Myles, Sr and Us State Rep Kendrick Meek are fraternity brothers. Rest in Heaven.

Thank you for setting an example by dedicating your life to serving others. You never forgot about the children and families that depended on you the most. That's the legacy that I'll always remember.

My prayers go out to your family, and I pray that God grant them peace and understanding as they carry your legacy forward in your absence.

Carrie Meek was MY congresswoman even though I didn't live in her congressional district. She befriended me when I didn't deserve her friendship. She looked out for me when I left Florida, passing the watch responsibilities to a local congressperson in Texas where I moved. I loved her tenacity, her passion and compassion for others. What an amazing legacy she leaves. Rest In Peace my friend.

I am so thankful, humbled and blessed to have been afforded the opportunity to learn so much from the Honorable Congresswoman Carrie P. Meek. I first met Congresswoman Meek in 1989 and will always cherish and remember the unsurpassed contributions that she poured into my life. It is because of her that I have been a public servant in Miami Dade County for the last 30 years. I will miss her leadership, her guidance, her jokes and her laughter. My sincere love and prayers to her family. SHE WAS TRULY AN ICON THAT LIVED AND WALKED AMONG THE PEOPLE...... "Sleep in Jesus!"

To honor Congresswoman Carrie P. Meek appropriately for the way she lived life and served people is virtually impossible. However, those of us who she touched are forever grateful to the Lord for sharing her with us. Condolences to her family, friends, and loved ones.

Forever loved, forever missed. She was and will always be a beacon of light for our community. May she Rest In Peace. Sending many prayers to the entire Meek Family.

I met and work with CPM. while In state Representative. She came to the Concept House which is a drug Rehabitation. She told the Director I need him on my team: who only was she my employer but my friend I help her with her dogs. I took her to doctors appointment. She said to me Rev Thompkins I going start a foundation so when I leave Congress we will have a job. Someone donated some furniture for the foundation.
Mr Yap and myself pick up the furniture. She rented an office on Flagler street I picked her from the airport when she came in from Washington I love CPM my friend rest in peace

TO THE FAMILY
she will be missed by many and wow what a blessing, 95 years young, thats grace and mercy all the days of her life, she was a beautiful person inside and out. Deepest sorrow on your loss and let the memories remain in your hearts
Sincerely

Much Love and Many prayers to the Meek family as they say Farewell to Congresswoman Carrie Meek. She was a Force and has left a Phenomenal Legacy, Many fond memories and touched many lives. The Love the Community held for her is un-ending.

Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is good, acceptable and the perfect will of God.

    I first met, worked with, came to know and admire her when she served as the Director of Community Services Division at Miami-Dade Community College. As a young professional who had previous jobs out of grad school as an urban planner for Dade County, and as an urban planner with a consulting firm, little did I know, that Carrie P. Meek would transform my life and my entire view of the world. It was a major cognitive shift for me, from a linear quantitative framework to one of infinite qualitative dimensions. I have known her for almost forty years, and actually worked with her for almost twenty of those years, first at the College as Director of Community Development in the 1970s and early 1980s, then later as Chief of Staff in Congress during her tenure there.


    She had an amazingly large combination of attributes, qualities, skill sets, and basic personality traits in her tool kit. She absolutely loved people, and had deep empathy for life problems, dilemmas, life situations, tragedies, and whatever life throws at people. And having learned whatever the problem was, she felt obligated to step in and try to help solve or make the situation better. Most people who met her automatically loved her. She had an endearing quality about herself, was humble and unassuming, disarming, gentle, motherly, and a friend indeed. She could easily communicate with equal dispatch with Presidents of the United States as well as with everyday residents on the streets of Liberty City. Cognitively she could go wherever they went.

    Additionally, she was a consummate intellectual. The reason she was so knowledgeable in many roles at the College was that fundamentally she was a true academic. She read a lot. As I worked with her in Congress, it became very clear to me early on that she was an avid speed reader. She would ask for specific voluminous documents and I observed that she could read hundreds of pages a night, highlight issue areas that hit her, and had written lots of questions and comments in the margins of the documents. In the morning she was ready for discussion with staff. What many did not know was she was well prepared for her meetings.

    As an administrator she was bold, decisive, visionary, product-oriented, and would quickly get to the bottom line. She was more action than talk. Talk was what she called “working up and down in the problem”.  The first example that got my attention was a woman coming to meet with her at the College who needed food for four hungry children. She stopped everything in the office, and took up an instant collection for food from visitors and staff alike and gave it to the woman. I knew, given that event, that I was going to like her. In retrospect, it was a peep into a window of the future where she would help thousands upon thousands of people.


    Helping everyday people with their individual problems, what is known as constituent services, was a natural for her. After all, she had been helping people resolve their personal day-to-day problems all her life. Her District Office which implemented much of her brand of constituent services was critical to her, so we designed and implemented a computerized casework system that allowed us to manage and rapidly expand the volume of casework in the District. The result was that over the years, we had heavy volumes of casework and many resolved cases.


    As a college administrator, she knew how to work with talented people and could get more from them than most others. She knew how to work within established institutional policies and procedures, and was also a big deal maker. She could pull disparate individuals, organizations, groups, businesses, government entities to the table, and somehow, come out with an agreement, or a deal.


    The glue that held all these wonderful traits together, and made being around her such a treat, was her humor. A comedian at heart, she could make you laugh weather you wanted to or not. Uniquely original and situational with her humor, she simultaneously demanded a lot of work and high performance levels.  The result was you would have lots of fun in the process of working!


    Over the decades she wrestled with a broad array of issues facing local communities, the state of Florida, the nation, and the world. Some of them included: expansion of higher education in Black communities; lack of economic development in Black communities; the Cuban refugee crisis; the Haitian refugee crisis; immigration; access to healthcare; affordable housing; safety net provisions; the 1980 Census and 1990 Census; fights for redistricting and reapportionment under the leadership of Dempsey Barron; running for and serving in the Florida Senate (First Black woman elected in the Senate) ; running for and serving in Congress (First Black to serve since Reconstruction); securing a coveted seat on the Appropriations Committee; NAFTA; 9-11; the Gulf War; the War in Afghanistan; and much more. 


    And there were many, many local issues including the aftermath of the McDuffie riots; Hurricane Andrew aftermath; Everglades Restoration; Homestead AFB; Police Use of Deadly Force; Virginia Key Beach Restoration, and the penny sales tax for Miami Dade Community College to name a few. Importantly, there was always funding needs for many local institutions including Miami-Dade County; Jackson Memorial Hospital; the University of Miami; Dade County Public Schools; Florida International University; South Florida Water Management District; Cities of Miami, Miami Beach, Hialeah, Coral Gables, North Miami, Homestead, Florida City, Opa Locka, and other municipalities; and on and on.


    Through it all, and more important than everything else, she was a Christian, loved GOD, and looked to Him for guidance in her everyday history-making walk in her lifetime. It has indeed been an honor and a great pleasure to have known and worked with her on a part of her walk. She has completed an amazing journey! May she rest in peace.


Peggy Mills-Demon, Ph.D.
Chief of Staff

Congresswoman Carrie P. Meek was the matriarch of Black Miami, the model of a servant leader, and a great American who loved America even when America did not love her.
I join the multitude who revered, respected and oved in extending heartfelt condolences to her wonderful but heartbroken family.
Let us honor Congresswoman Meek by continuing her life's work of helping, serving, and caring for others. Heaven is just a little busier today. Carrie has come home!

Your example will feed our actions for generations. Thank you for being your authentic self and fighting for us at every step of the way. Rest well with our ancestors.

Heavy hearts today; but I love your spirit and your giving heart you had for the citizens of Miami, and the state of Florida. You brought home the bacon and I am forever grateful to you.  Thank you for being a partner to my students and me while teaching at Miami Northwestern. You never turned us down. You allowed Dr. Ramos yo get on it. Thanks for sharing Rev. Willie Thompkins with me as well. Sleep on my sister. Servant well done.

It is with great appreciation and gratitude for Congresswoman Carrie Meeks' accomplishments, service and the legacy, that i wish the family my sincere condolences in her passing.

My heart is heavy but my spirit is strong as I acknowledge the life and legacy of Congresswoman Carrie P. Meek.  To say she was an institution is a major understatement.  She was truly a national treasure. I can't think of any elected official that I have more admiration for than Congresswoman Meek.  She was an example of standing up for your convictions no matter what the consequences were. She would not waiver in her support of the interests of poor and underserved people.   Throughout my career she was a close and trusted advisor and mentor, and always gave me her unyielding support.  Her presence will be deeply missed, but her legacy lives on.

With profound gratitude for your leadership and your kindness to me when I first became active in supporting women and girls in our community, Ms. Meek, you will be forever honored. Your Women's Fund Miami-Dade will do our best to carry a bright torch forward. 

If anyone has ever looked for the rare, top-tier combination of leadership, tenacity, and grace in a person - God created Carrie Meek. We are all blessed to have at any point witnessed her affecting positive change in any community she touched. Gratefully, she allowed fruit to fall from her tree in my Brother Kendrick and his sisters, Lucia and Sheila who honor her through their service and contributions to the good of all mankind.

Well done, Queen Meeks...rest knowing that you left an amazing legacy and example for me and my girls to live up to.

How do I thank you for being the "light" that you have always been. I knew you as a young woman and was touchd by you and have lived my life helping others as I saw you do. Most importantly, you gave my son a chance to be what God created him to be by writing a letter to a magnet school, which led to him graduating from both MIT and Howard University, and he is currently a surgeon. I pray that you are with Our Father, Samaki, Ted, and so many warriors which you led. Blessings to your family and yourself in Heaven.

Wishing the family comfort, peace and strength during difficult time.

To former U.S. Representative Kendrick Meek and family. Please accept my condolences for the loss of Ms Carrie Meek. My mother knew her as she was my mothers professor when she attended and graduated from Bethune Cookman and my father knew her too. All were good friends and I will never forget when Ms Meek announced my mothers retirement and it is in the Congressional Record. Ms Meek did a lot for the Miami community and for the state of Florida. RIP and servant well done.

Blessed Be

What a joy to have been in your presence Congresswoman Meek and I will forever keep your spirit of service in my heart and deeds.

Congresswoman you were a mother, teacher, political giant, an extraordinary public servant, community pillar and friend to so many! The preparations have been made for a life well lived in a community you served oh so well! We love you and will miss you dearly. We bid you adieu as you go to a place where you will live on eternally in his name, BLESS YOU!

Carrie Meek was my very dear friend, my counselor, my advisor and the one human being I will never forget. I loved her!
Raul Masvidal

Proverbs 31:29-31.
“Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.” 
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Honor her for all that her hands done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

With Love & Very Fond Memories - Valerie & Fam. 

I join the many friends of Representative Carrie Meek in honoring her memory for her many years of service to the residents of Miami Dade County. She was an indefatigable fighter for human rights from her early days as a teacher to her service in the Florida Senate and as a US Congresswoman as well as for her many contributions after she retired from Congress. I was honored to have met her and to have had an opportunity to work with her and to call her my friend. She will be missed but her legacy will live on forever. May she rest with the angels in heaven. Tony Ojeda

Thank you for all that you have done not only for my family directly, but all of the families that you touched. Your Legacy is unmatched and will live forever. Love you and miss you Rest in Heaven