Nadine Carol (Paul) Myers (1925-2008)
MYERS, PAUL, EIBEY, VIGDAL, MATTHES, HINTZ, KLUG
Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 9/25/2008 at 18:10:45
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, September 25, 2008.
March 23, 1925-Sept. 16, 2008
Nadine Carol (Paul) Myers, 83, of Truman, Minn., formerly of Ceylon, Minn., and Ames, died Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, at Fairmont (Minn.) Community Hospital. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Ceylon, Minn. Burial will be in Lake Belt Cemetery, west of Ceylon.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, and one hour prior to services Saturday at the church.
Nadine Carol (Paul) Myers was born March 23, 1925, in Rockwell City, the daughter of Marie C. (Eibey) Paul and Ariel Paul. She graduated from Ames High School in 1943, and married Wendell Myers, also of Ames, on Feb. 4, 1945.
She was the mainstay in running their household and raising their five children, particularly during the years her husband was a traveling insurance salesman. She also worked outside of the home much of her married life, including helping run a family-operated DX service station, a taxi service and a bus line that served central Iowa cattle dealers traveling to Chicago stockyards. She held numerous clerical positions, including in the division of the top-secret, World War II Manhattan Project at Iowa State University that was tasked with refining plutonium, and she recalled meeting J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi in that context. And she once was baby-sat by Paul Tibbets, later pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Other employment included work at a bank in Ames, at a farm chemicals company in Welcome, Minn., as a Fuller Brush representative, and at a law firm and a carpeting company, both in Fairmont, Minn. She ended her working years with positions in the Ceylon school system, working from 1974 to 1989 driving a school bus, serving as substitute school secretary and serving as Ceylon's first community education director. She was responsible for a weekly radio program outlining Ceylon community events.
She was soft-spoken and devoted to her family, encouraging her children in all their interests, and faithfully attending their musical performances, sporting events and plays. She helped organize a crew of young people, including several family members, that walked beans for several summers. She enjoyed family fishing vacations in northern Minnesota (though she steadfastly refused to clean fish), and other travel, including trips around the U.S. and to Vancouver, Mexico City and Acapulco. She also enjoyed involvement in bowling leagues and in the Rebekkah Lodge, sang with a Sweet Adelines group, and was a member of the DAR.
She is survived by five children, David Myers, of Vancouver, Canada, and his partner, Bill Houghton; Teri Sue Myers, of Winton, Minn., and her children, Jason Vigdal, Margaret Matthes (daughter Madelyn) and Sarah Matthes (daughter Lita Mae); Dan Myers, of Ceylon; Don Myers, of St. Peter, Minn., and his wife, Joni (Anderson) Myers, and their children, Iris and Dalton; and Kaycee Hintz, of Truman, Minn., and her husband, Larry Hintz, and their children, Nichole Klug (husband Kevin), Michael (fiancée Chelsea Bitter), and Rebecca.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband of 62 years, Wendell.
Zaharia Family Funeral and Cremation Service of Truman, Minn., is in charge of arrangements.
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