Barbara Ann Meyers

Barbara A. (Gibbs) Meyers, 57 of rural Ponca passed away on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at her residence. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Monday, April 13, 2009 at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Newcastle, Nebraska with Father David Liewer officiating. Burial will be in Silver Ridge Cemetery, rural Ponca, Nebraska. Visitation will begin at the church at 5:00 P.M., with the family present at 6:00 P.M. and a Scriptural Wake Service at 7:00 P.M. on Sunday, April 12, 2009. Barbara Ann Gibbs was born in Mapleton, Iowa July 27, 1951 to Ervin and Grace (Hughes) Gibbs. She as raised on a farm south of Ute, Iowa and graduated from Charter Oak-Ute Community School in 1969. She attended Nettleton Business Training College in Sioux City. Barb married John Woodard in June of 1970 in Ute, Iowa. They later divorced. She worked at Sioux Tools, Inc. in Sioux City, starting in the bookkeeping department and advancing to the sales order desk, and finally becoming the first woman industrial engineer in the company. There she met Aaron Meyers. They were married June 16, 1979 in Newcastle, Nebraska. They "retired" from Sioux Tools to the family farm south of Newcastl...[more]

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or the "good life" and a good place to raise their boys. Over the years Barb worked at the Newcastle Public School, Dixon County Farm Service Agency, Ivadell Burcham Real Estate, and the NRCS Ponca Field Office--jobs she loved because of the people she worked with and the people she met. But her most important job, and the one that brought her the most joy, was that of wife, mom and grandma. She is survived by her husband of almost 30 years, Aaron of Ponca; two sons, John Woodard, Jr. and his wife Janyce of Homer, NE and Michael Meyers of Newcastle, NE; three grandchildren, Connor and Bryanna Woodard of Homer and Dillon Woodard of Hawarden; one sister, Georgia Harm and her husband Rick of Sioux Falls, SD; one brother, Wayne Gibbs of Ames, IA and one niece, Angie Jones and her husband Scott of Sioux Falls, SD. She was preceded in death by her parents and grandparents, Solon and Anna Gibbs and George and Mae Hughes.