Cathy Ann (Olson) MEYER

MEYER, SOUTHERLAND, MYERS, OLSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/13/2008 at 11:27:20

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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