John Robert Meiers

Funeral services for John Robert Meiers, 77, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Feltner Funeral Home in Lyndon. Burial will be in Vassar Cemetery.
Mr. Meiers died Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka.
He was born Aug. 5, 1931, in Quenemo, the son of Alfred and Ellen Rendell Meiers. He grew up in Quenemo but lived most of his life in Topeka.
Mr. Meiers served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1955. He worked for Falleys Inc. and retired as hardware manager.
He married Shirley Miller on Jan. 9, 1954, in Vassar. She survives, of the home.
Other survivors include a son, Robert, Lawrence; a daughter, Sharon Koehler, Lawrence; three sisters, Mary Louise Raney, Springfield, Mo., Minnie Rose, Quenemo, and Patty Pegram, Waverly; four grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
The family will meet friends from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. before services Saturday at the funeral home.
The family suggests memorials to the Alzheimer’s Association or the Parkinson’s Association, sent in care of the funeral home, 818 Topeka Ave., Lyndon, KS 66451.