Bernice G. Neumeyer

Bernice G. Neumeyer, 101, a resident of W. Eleventh St. in Dover for sixty years, died Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, in Park Village Health Care Center.

Born Nov. 18, 1909, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, she was a daughter of the late Marion and Lula Robison Rawe. Bernice graduated from Ohio University in 1932 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. As young lady, she went on to teach music in the country schools of West Virginia. She met and fell in love with another young teacher, Lawrence J. "Bud" Neumeyer, and the couple were married in 1940. They settled in Dover, reared three children, and shared sixty-five years together before Bud's passing in 2005.

Bernice was a faithful member of St. Joseph Church in Dover, and prayed the Rosary daily. She also belonged to the Loyola Study Club and the Christian Mothers group. Bernice enjoyed a lifelong love of music, playing the organ and piano, as well as giving lessons in her home. She was an avid reader and liked to work word and jigsaw puzzles. To help keep her mind sharp, she would recite the names of the United States' Presidents and those of their wives in order, and names of the fifty states and their capitals.

She was a dear soul a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and leaves to mourn her daughter, Nancy (Jerry) Ellsworth of North Canton; her son, Robert (Carol) Neumeyer of Dover; her daughter-in-law, Donna Neumeyer Landes of New Philadelphia; grandchildren, Angela, Robert, Krista, Cheryl, Lisa, Susan, Patty, Amy and Jamie; eleven great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, and her husband, Bud, Bernice was preceded in death by her son, James Neumeyer; her granddaughter, Laura Neumeyer; three sisters and five brothers.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 11 a.m. in St. Joseph Church, Dover, with Fr. Jimmy Hatfield officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Dover. Following the committal, there will be a luncheon in the Family Life Center of St. Joseph Church. Family and friends are invited to call at the Toland-Herzig Funeral Home & Crematory in Dover on Tuesday morning, 9:30 10:40. To sign an online guestbook and share a fond memory of Bernice, please visit the Obituaries and Flowers link on the funeral home's website.

The family suggests that contributions in Bernice's memory be made to the charity of the donor's choice.