Eva L. McMichael Meredith (Clement)

Eva lived a quiet life devoted to raising her four children and being there for her hard-working husband, Alvin. She chose to be at home for her kids rather than be involved in various community organizations.

Eva enjoyed teaching her children how to play card games, putting together jigsaw puzzles, and working crossword puzzles. Her children learned cooking as well as sewing skills from their mother, plus discipline, and a responsibility towards chores and jobs. Close friendships were important in Eva's life. In fact, the coffee pot was always ready for a visitor who chanced to drop by any time. Later in life, Eva's grandchildren became her pride and joy!

Even though Eva loved to dance, she sat patiently and quietly while her young husband, along with his father, brother, and other friends played for dances in the local communities. In fact, it was she who began teaching her children the two-step, waltz, polka, and some round dances.

After the death of her husband, Alvin, Eva filled the void by participating in a Bible Study group there in Farnam, Nebraska. With a few other widowed ladies, she also began attending the Gothenburg Senior Center sponsored dances. It was at one of these dances, she reacquainted with Fred Meredith! Soon, they were courting, and then they married in 1984. Theirs was a happy union, only to be broken by Eva's untimely death due to a heart attack in 1992.

(submitted by daughter Mary Ann Agnew (McMichael)

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Eva (Clement) (McMichael) Meredith

Eva Meredith, 70, died March 9, 1992, at the Gothenburg hospital. She was born July 11, 1921, at Farnam to Claude and Fern Hurley Clement. She married Alvin McMichael on Sept. 24, 1940, at Orafino and they lived near Farnam. Mr. McMichael died on June 3, 1981. On Sept. 22, 1984, she married Fred Meredith at Gothenburg and has lived in Gothenburg since.

Survivors include her husband, Fred of Gothenburg; three daughters, Edith (Mrs. Doug) Brouillette of Jacksonville, Ark., Mary Ann (Mrs. Charles) Agnew of Rancho Palos Verde, Calif., and Betty (Mrs. Gary) Hogg of Kearney; a son, Marvin and wife Merril Jane McMichael of Gothenburg; six sisters, Ora McMichael of Farnam, Clara Donner and Peggy Feddersen both of Gothenburg, Liona Hamel and Delores Miller both of North Platte, and Dorothy Lange of Arlington; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

She also was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Emerald and Wayne.

Services for Mrs. Meredith will be 10 a.m. Friday at the Methodist Church in Gothenburg with the Rev. James McChesney officiating. Burial will be in the Farnam Cemetery.

Memorials are suggested to the Gothenburg Senior Center.

McVay Memorial Chapel is in charge if arrangements.

Gothenburg Times, Gothenburg, Dawson County, Nebraska. 2 Aug. 1995