Obit: Meyer, Ben M. (1920-1983)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Meyer, Bunker, Kurth, Hall, Bailey, Schuette

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (07 September 1983)

Meyer, Ben M. (09 August 1920 - 06 September 1983)

Ben M. Meyer, 90, of Chippewa Falls, a Colby native, died there Tuesday at Rutledge Home for the Aged, where he had resided since April.

Services will be Friday at First Presbyterian Church with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery, both in Chippewa Falls. Visitation will be at the Pederson-Volker Funeral Chapel, Chippewa Falls.

He was born in Colby and married Ruby Bunker August 9, 1920 in Monfort. He graduated from Oshkosh Sate Normal School, Stout Institute and the University of Madison. He started teaching in 1915 in West Allis. He joined the Chippewa Falls school system in 1920 and was appointed director of the vocational school in 1923, holding that post until retiring in 1962. He served with the U.S. Army during World War I, and in 1935 was appointed National Youth Administration Supervisor for the federal government.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Myrna Jean Kurth of Chippewa Falls; two brothers, Frank of Colby and Don of Seattle, Washington; three sisters, Lillian Hall and Mildred Bailey, both of Seattle and Amy Schuette of Neenah; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.