The Niemuth
Family -- Misplaced Members
-- Lemoine
Alton Meyer's obituary --
- ST. PAUL -- Lemoine Alton Meyer,
82, of St. Paul, died Friday, March 24, 2006, at the Howard County
- Community Hospital in St. Paul.
- Funeral services will be at 10:30
a.m. Wednesday at Christ Lutheran Church in St. Paul. The Rev.
Thomas
- Clark will officiate. Interment
will be in the Grand Island City Cemetery at 2 p.m. with military
honors by Carl Mogensen American Legion Post No. 119 of St. Paul.
- Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m.
Tuesday at the church.
- Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home of
St. Paul is in charge of arrangements.
- Mr. Meyer was born April 12, 1923,
in St. Libory to Fred and Meta (Niemoth) Meyer.
- Survivors of the immediate family
include his wife, Phyllis, of St. Paul; a son and daughter-in-law,
Rodney
- and Deb Meyer of St. Paul; two daughters
and sons-in-law, Kathy and Greg Eirick of Grand Island and Kristi
and Mike Morris of Cedar Bluffs; one brother and sister-in-law,
Wayne and Murena Meyer of Central City; and one sister, Lorraine
Kutch of Idaho Springs, Colo.
- Other survivors include six grandchildren,
Jeremy, Nathan and Nicholas Meyer, Michelle Watson and her
- husband, Jerry, Jamie Eirick and
Breane Morris; and two great-grandchildren, Jordan and McKenna
Watson.
- Lemoine was baptized April 29, 1923,
and confirmed June 27, 1937, at St. John's Lutheran Church in
- Palmer.
- He first attended District 45, graduated
from 8th grade at District 73 in Howard County and then attended
- St. Paul High School where he graduated
in 1942.
- Lemoine entered the U.S. Navy May
21, 1945, where he served as a motor machinist's mate until
- receiving his discharge July 21,
1946.
- He was united in marriage to Phyllis
Schimmer Sept. 18, 1946, in Grand Island.
- The couple first lived near Abbott
where he was a dealer for Archer Oil for many years and also
sold
- Farmer's Hybrid Seed.
- In 1969, they moved to a farm west
of St. Paul where he was engaged in farming and also continued
to
- work for Archer Oil and Farmer's
Hybrid Seed. They moved to St. Paul in 1985. At that time, he
began working for the Farwell Irrigation District. He worked
there until his retirement in 2003.
- He loved being with his family and
he cherished his grandchildren. Lemoine enjoyed woodworking,
taking
- care of his yard and garden and
loved to play cards.
- He was a member of Christ Lutheran
Church and the Carl Mogensen American Legion Post No. 119, both
- of St. Paul, the Platt-Duetsche
of Grand Island and the Navy Seabees.
- He was preceded in death by his
parents; an infant son, Douglas Meyer; and an infant brother,
Kenneth
- Meyer.
- Memorials are suggested to Christ
Lutheran Church, the Howard County Community Hospital Foundation
- or to the donor's choice.
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- [Source: Grand Island Independent,
March 26, 2006]
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