Charlotte Meyer

MEYER WINTERRINGER MOUGIN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/6/2010 at 23:22:51

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Charlotte Meyer
By Charlotte Meyer Mougin

Charlotte Meyer was born on September 20, 1949, to Mr Virgil John Lewis Meyer and Muriel Catherine Winterringer Meyer of 1301 St Aubin, Sioux City, Iowa. On April 29, 1951, we were blessed with the arrival of my only sister, Carol Jean Meyer. We all resided at the above residence until the Thanksgiving of my 8th year. We attended Morningside Presbyterian Church on Morningside Avenue in Sioux City. I attended Joy Grade School from kindergarten thru 6th grade. I then attended East Jr High for 7th thru 9th grades. I went on to graduate from East High School in 1967. While in school, I participated in band, marching and orchestral, playing the clarinet; I was also active in chorus and G.R.A. After graduation, I worked at the Executive Offices of Postal Finance in Sioux City as a typist and later on operated a Key-punch machine. I also worked for Dr Mort Henkin, D.D.S. as an assistant and receptionist. In 1969, I was graduated from Western Iowa Tech in the 12 month Dental Assistant program. After graduation, I went to work for Dr Charles Freyer D.D.S., senor member of Drs Freyer, Risk, and Craig. I moved to an apartment of my own at 1902 Jackson in September 1969.

On June 27, 1970, I married Joseph Richard Mougin of Fairfield, Iowa. In August of 1970, we moved to Newell, Iowa, where Joe was to teach Jr High English and High School French for the next seven years. We rented a house when we first arrived in Newell. I worked for an Alta, Iowa, newspaper for a short time after our arrival in Newell. Randall Joseph Mougin was born on April 26, 1971. When Randy was about two months old, we moved to a small house across from the park in town. On June 21, 1972, Richard Allen Mougin was born. In 1973, we purchased a house at 702 Franklin in Newell. When Randy was three years and Rick two years, I worked at Trojan Seed in Sac City sorting seed corn. In December of that same year, I started working as an Aide at the Newell Good Samaritan Care Center. Joe started to take courses to get an M.D. in Counseling. We all spent six weeks in Ames one summer in the student housing. Later he took night courses and went to Ames summers. He graduated in the summer of 1977.

In October of 1977 we all moved to West Point, Iowa where Joe had obtained a Counselors position at Marquette High School. Randy attended parochial grade school in Houghton, Iowa. Richard attended the public Kindergarten in West Point. We rented a fairly new house at 601 Bel AIre Drive in West Point. Shortly after our move to southeast Iowa, Randy was admitted to the Ft. Madison hospital for a week for upper respiratory problems. About two weeks later, I was rushed to the emergency ward of the Ft. Madison hospital for an asthmatic attack. I applied for an aide job at the hospital. And on the day of my physical tests, after having completed them, on the way stopped to bury groceries at the Easter store. As I was checking out my purchases, a gravel truck with approximately eight tons of gravel crashed into the store spilling its cargo. Nineteen people were sent to the hospital. Four were admitted, my stay was five days long. I had a lacerated right hand, badly bruised left leg and strained back.

I started working full time December 1977 at the Ft Madison hospital on the surgical floor. Randy was in the hospital again in the spring of 1978 for an ulcerated colon. In August of 1978 we moved to Lone Tree, Iowa, where Joe had obtained a counseling job in a public school. We purchased our present house at 108 Center in November 1978. I worked as an aide at the Lone Tree Care Center until June of 1979. I started substitute bus driving in January of 1980. In 1981 I drove school bus all year plus driving the S.E.A.T.S. van in town, which takes senior citizens to meals and delivers meals to shut-ins. I still drive the van and sub school bus. Randy and Richard had an Iowa City Press Citizen paper route for two and a half years.