Reginald Melvin Meyer Jr.

Reggie Meyer A private memorial service will be held for the family. MUSCATINE, Iowa - Reginald Melvin Whitey Meyer Jr., died Sunday March 9, 2008, at Carrington Place in Muscatine. At his request, his remains have been donated to the University of Iowa, School of Medicine. Jeffrey S. Nichols Chapel Hill Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of arrangements. Memorials in his name can be made to the German American Heritage Center at 712 W. Second St. in Davenport. Mr. Meyer was born on June 6, 1928, in Davenport, the son of Reginald Meyer, Sr., and Katharine (Schroder) Meyer. He served in the U.S. Navy. He married Mary Jane Bell on May 20, 1948, in Muscatine. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in sociology in 1964. His greatest priority was family, with intellectual freedom and liberal principles closely following. A voracious reader, he leaves a great love of literature and the history of ideas to his children and grandchildren. He took delight in following the progress of all the many contemporary members of his family tree and also in tracing it back to its roots in Germany and Switzerland. His physical well-being was very important...[more]

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o him; he was an avid runner, who swam daily and ate judiciously. He completed seven Bix 7s and competed in every Muscatine YMCA mini triathlon. His travels took him all across the United States and around the world. He was fastidious in maintaining friendships and retaining relationships. Among the many he counted as friends were Bob Stohr, Don Miller, George Wecksung, Charlie McIntire, Ludy Lenz, and Glen Davis. His many letters will be cherished by their recipients for their wit and charm. Pithy, inventive, and pertinent, his interpretations of events and concepts were expressed with wonderful insight and a great aptitude for language. He was stubborn, domineering, opinionated, and sarcastic. He was also loving, generous, and tremendously supportive. Part of his legacy to his descendents will be the pride and sense of enterprise those qualities engendered in them. Survivors include two daughters, Victoria Lehman and Kristine Conlon; a son, Reginald III; two sons-in-law, Robert Lehman and Walter Conlon; a daughter-in-law, Ramona Meyer; five grandchildren, Emily Davis and husband, Joe, Evan Barrett and wife, Lindsay, John Conlon, Michael Conlon and Regina Arnone and husband, Michael; a great-grandchild, Stella Davis; sisters, Alleyne Begey and husband, Jack, Karen Luedtke, Jackie Schroeder and husband, Larry, a brother, Albert Meyer and wife, Norma, and a brother-in-law, Jim Ellis, all of Muscatine; sisters-in-law, Betty Boulton and husband, Bill, Peggy Kulp, Karyn Hills, Paulette Redlinger and husband, John, and brothers-in-law, Boone Bell and wife, Marian, Jerry Bell and wife, Roberta, George Bell and wife, Rose Ann, all of Columbus Junction and Columbus City; there are also many nieces and nephews. His wife, his parents, two sisters and a brother preceded him in death.