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Memorial Service to be Held Tuesday for Cathy Ann Meyer
CHICAGO, IL (September 28, 2002) - A memorial service will be held at 7:30
p.m.
Tuesday (October 1) for Cathy Ann Meyer who died Saturday morning at
Swedish Covenant Hospital following a lengthy battle with breast cancer.
The service will be held at North Park Covenant Church, 5250 N.
Christiana
Avenue in Chicago. A second service has been tentatively set for
Tuesday,
October 8, at Zion Covenant Church in Jamestown, New York. Details of
that
service will be announced later.
Fifty-three at the time of her death, Cathy served as the assistant
human
resources director for North Park University. She is the wife of Don
Meyer,
executive minister of the Department of Communication for the
Evangelical
Covenant Church.
Cathy was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and grew up on the family farm in
Thor.
The couple was married in June 1967 in Eagle Grove, Iowa, and lived in
Chicago in the late 1960s; Fort Dodge, Iowa, from 1970 to 1973; St.
Charles, Missouri, from 1973 to 1976; and Jamestown, New York, from 1976
to
1997 before returning to Chicago.
She was an administrative assistant in an electrical wholesale firm in
Fort
Dodge and served as administrative assistant to the vice president of
Jamestown Community College prior to her work at North Park University.
One
of her passions was encouraging and assisting students on the two
educational campuses.
Cathy was active in the local churches of which the couple were members
in
the various communities in which they lived, teaching Sunday school,
helping with numerous care ministries, participating on church boards
and
committees, participating in the bell choir at North Park and working
with
children.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Christine Ann
Southerland of Buffalo, New York, who with her husband, Jesse, have two
daughters, Shelby Ann and Jessica Lynn; a son, Jonathan of Port
Allegany,
Pennsylvania, who with his wife, Michelle, have a son, Landon Olson
Meyer;
a sister, Gail Myers of Eagle Grove; a brother, Tom Olson of Cedar
Rapids,
Iowa; and several nieces and nephews. Jonathan is pastor of the
Evangelical
Covenant Church of Port Allegany.
The family suggests memorials be directed to either North Park Covenant
Church in Chicago or Zion Covenant Church in Jamestown.
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