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Rose Mary Traynor Meyer of St. Louis, Missouri, a native of St. Johnsbury, Vermont died Tuesday, March 14, 2017, at age 88. Rose Mary spent her childhood enjoying the snowy winters and cool summers of St. Johnsbury, where she was active in Girl Scouts, Rainbow Girls and South Congregational Church. She was an all-state honorable mention basketball player at St. Johnsbury Academy, where she graduated in 1946. At the University of Vermont she belonged to Alpha Chi Omega sorority and Mortar Board National Honor Society and was an officer in the Women’s Association. She graduated from UVM in 1950 and worked as a teacher in Burlington for three years before moving to St. Louis, where she worked seven more years before ending her teaching career to raise her children. While teaching in Burlington in 1952, she and her roommates saw newspaper articles about concerns that local residents were not being friendly to Air Force members stationed there. The roommates and three other teachers decided to put out an invitation for six airmen to come to dinner. It was at that spaghetti dinner that she met Jim Meyer of St. Louis. They were married on Aug. 8, 1953, at South Congregational Church in St. Johnsbury. They moved to St. Louis, but frequently visited St. Johnsbury, spending summers with her parents, William Craig and Madge Stevens Traynor. In St. Louis, Rose Mary had been an active member of Calvary Presbyterian Church in St. Louis County since 1962, serving as an elder and Women’s Association officer. She was a member of P.E.O. Missouri Chapter FX and volunteered with several organizations. Because of her mother’s severe hearing loss she had a fondness for helping the hearing- impaired and enjoyed working for CONTACT, making calls for the deaf and hard of hearing. She enjoyed creating games, poems and genealogy booklets for Traynor family reunions. She kept in touch with many of her St. Johnsbury friends and classmates throughout her life. Rose Mary is survived by her daughter, Kathy (Jim) Salter of O’Fallon, Missouri; son Kendon C. Meyer of Wildwood, Missouri; grandchildren Daniel (Ali) Salter of Columbia, Missouri, Tyler Salter of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Emily Salter of Springfield, Missouri; sister, Dorothy Desrochers of St. Johnsbury; niece Susan Desrochers (Jim) McLaughlin of Wallingford, Connecticut, and children Jill (Kris) Kaider and their daughter Eleanor, and Ben McLaughlin; nephew James (Karen) Desrochers, Sugarland, Texas, and their daughters Laura Desrochers and Kristen Desrochers; cousin, Jean (Robert) Gagner of Jeffersonville, Vermont; niece-in-law Patricia Desrochers of Waterford, Vermont. She was preceded in death by Jim Meyer, her husband of 61 years, on March 31, 2015; her parents; in-laws Carl F. and Erna L. Meyer; cousin, Ann Stratton Trujillo; and nephew, Thomas Craig Desrochers. A memorial service will be at 1:30 p.m. March 25, Calvary Presbyterian Church, St. Louis. Memorial gifts may be made to the American Parkinson Disease Association; Calvary Presbyterian Church, 3400 Lemay Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO, 63125; or to the St. Johnsbury History and Heritage Center.





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