Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 10/24/2001

Meier, Dorothy G. (12 JUN 1911 - 21 OCT 2001)

Dorothy G. Meier, 90, Marshfield and a long-time resident of Neillsville, Clark County, died on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2001, at the Palliative Care Unit of Saint Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield. Visitation will be held from 10-11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, at the United Methodist Church, Neillsville. Funeral services will follow at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mary Anne Conklin will officiate. Music will be provided by Eileen Zank, organist, and Todd Wall, soloist. Burial will be in the Neillsville city Cemetery. Pallbearers are Walter Oldham, Jerry Smith, Jerry Opelt, Jack Kluckholm, Tom Wavrunek and Gene Jepsen.

She was born in Neillsville on June 12, 1911. She attended Neillsville public schools and graduated in 1929 as valedictorian of her class. She graduated from Eau Claire State Teacher's College and taught first grade in Barron until 1937, when she moved back to Neillsville and married W.G. "Bill" Meier on Aug. 7, 1937. She moved to her home on Emery Street to care for her mother. She worked for the Clark County Agency and assisted her husband with operation of the Neillsville Theatre from 1959-1977. She returned to teaching in the Neillsville Public Schools as a second grade teacher from 1963 until she retired in 1976. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, Neillsville, since 1923, the Miriam Circle, the United Methodist Women, and served on many committees and commissions.

Survivors include three children, Thomas (Nancy) Meier, McFarland, David (Miriam) Meier, Reedsville, and Sally Meier, Marshfield five grandchildren, Jacqueline (Mike) Allen, Rockford, Ill., Lynn Meier, Fond du Lac, William Meier, Reedsville, Brian (Kristie) Osterheim, Lapeer, Mich., and Sara Osterheim, Anoka, Minn. and six great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her mother, Georgine Holte, in 1972, and her husband, Bill, on Jan. 27, 1978.

Memorials may be designated to the Neillsville United Methodist Church or for cancer research.

Gesche Funeral Home, Neillsville, is assisting the family with arrangements.