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Joanna E. Myers

Written on December 5, 2016 by Staff Reporter

Categories: Obituaries Archive 2016, Wabash County

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Joanna E. Myers, 90, North Manchester, died at 5:50 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016 at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne.

She was born Feb. 20, 1926 in Wabash County to Walter and Jessie (Summers) Fiant.

Joanna was a 1944 graduate of Somerset High School, and received a BS in Elementary Education and a minor in Music from Manchester College in 1947. She married Herman F. Myers at the Peabody Chapel in North Manchester on Aug. 17, 1946; he died July 12, 2015.

Joanna was a homemaker and a farmer’s wife. She was a member of the Urbana Yoke Parish where she sang in the adult choir, played the organ, and was a member of the Women’s Guild. She enjoyed polka music, playing the piano, organ, and accordion and especially enjoyed traveling and going out to eat with her husband, Herman. Joanna was a woman of great faith.

She is survived by four children: Lee (Sandy) Myers, Marion, Ohio; Merle Myers and John (Linda) Myers, both of rural North Manchester; and Carolyn (Steve Powell) Myers, Wabash; six grandchildren: Rob (Mandie) Myers, Marion, Ohio; Mandy (Josh) Manner, Dublin, Ohio; Christopher Myers of rural North Manchester; Noelle (Daniel) Pulliam, Indianapolis; John Lundquist and Megan Lundquist, both of Wabash; and nine great grandchildren.

She was also preceded in death by her parents.

Funeral services will be 1 p.m., Friday, Dec. 9 at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, with Rev. Larry Wade officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Andrews. Friends may call 4-7 p.m., Thursday at the funeral home.

Preferred memorial is Urbana Yoke Parish.

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