Born January 4, 1909 Vail, Iowa
Entered Into Rest January 31, 1968 Manning, Iowa
Age 59 years, 27 days
Services Held At Ohde Funeral Home Manning, Iowa Saturday, February 3, 1968 10.00 A.M.
Officiating Rev. Fr. Norbert Weber Pastor Sacred Heart Church Manning, Iowa
Interment Sacred Heart Cemetery Manning, Iowa
Casketbearers: Cletus McGrane, Paul Volquartsen, Don Roecker, Ronnie Hagge, Dick Borowiak, Louis Denich

JOHN D. MEIERS
Funeral services for John David Meiers, 59, of Manning, were held at the Ohde Funeral Home here on Saturday morning, Feb. 3, at 10 o'clock, with Father Norbert Weber of Sacred Heart Parish officiating. Burial was in the Parish Cemetery. The Rosary was prayed at 8:30 on Friday evening at the Ohde Funeral Home.

Son of William and Maria (Hargens) Meiers, he was born on June 4, 1908, at Vail and attended schools there. He also attended barber college and later was engaged in farming. For the past ten years, he had worked at the Manning Creamery Company Farms.

Mr. Meiers was killed instantly when a train struck the pickup he was driving on Wednesday, January 31, at 1:05 p.m., at a crossing on the west edge of town.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Mrs. Vernon (Loretta) Farrell.

He is survived by his wife, the former Isabelle Vollmer of Manning; three children: Mrs. Don (Karen) Steffes, Anaheim, California; Kathy Meiers, Carroll, and Eddie, at home; three grandchildren, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Helen O'Leary, St. Paul, Minnesota; Mrs. Pete (Emma) Hagge, Omaha Mrs. Vernon (Mamie) Shafer, Council Bluffs; William, Valle City, North Dakota; Peter, Louis and Elsie of Arcadia, and Earl, Meiers of Carroll.

J. Meiers Killed in Train-Pickup Accident
February 1, 1968, Manning Monitor

A pickup-train accident Wednesday afternoon about 1:05 took the life of a Manning man and his dog at the Great Western tracks intersection on Third Street.

John Meiers, in his early fifties, was killed instantly when a three-car North Western train plowed into the pickup, just east of the Man-Cry-Co Farms. Mr. Meiers was an employee of the Farms; the pickup was owned by Lester Dammann.

County Coroner Roland B. Morrison pronounced the victim dead at the scene, and the body was taken to the Ohde Funeral Home.

According to reports, the air-lines on the brakes of the train were damaged when part of the pickup went under the front and the train was unable to stop until some distance down the track. Wreckage was strewn for more than a mile.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office, City Police and Highway Patrol investigated the accident. Mr. Meiers is survived by his wife Isabelle, two daughters, and a son.