MEYER, Gwendolyn M. (Bruns) 1921-2013

MEYER, BRUNS, GLAWE, RAUSCH, REIF, DROSTE, WAGNER, DIETRICH, MOHR

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 1/24/2014 at 00:45:01

[Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Thursday, October 3, 2013]

WATERLOO -- Gwendolyn M. Meyer, 92, of Waterloo, died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, at the Western Home Martin Health Care Center, Cedar Falls.

She was born Oct. 1, 1921, on a farm in Farmersburg Township, Clayton County, daughter of William and Emma Glawe Bruns. She married Alvin A. “Allen” Meyer on April 12, 1939, in Elkader; he died July 24, 1992.

Mrs. Meyer was a homemaker, and formerly worked at Black’s Department Store, Waterloo, and Sartori Memorial Hospital, Cedar Falls. She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church, Waterloo.

Survived by three daughters, Donna (Lee) Rausch of Tripoli, and Betty (Gary) Reif and Connie (Jim) Droste, both of Waterloo; thee sons, Alvin (Vivian) and Francis (Sandra), both of Waterloo, and James (Karen) of Mechanicsville, Va.; 14 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.

Preceded in death by her parents; a grandson; four sisters, Dorothy Bruns, Lucille Wagner, Gladys Dietrich and Annes Mohr; and five brothers, Everett, William, Norbert, Ed and Herb Bruns.

Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Grace Lutheran Church, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Visitation from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Kearns Funeral Service Kimball Chapel, and an hour before services Saturday at the Church.

Memorials may be directed to the church at 1024 W. Eighth St., Waterloo 50702, or Western Home Foundation, 420 E. 11th St., Cedar Falls 50613.

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