Caroline Meier

Caroline Lutricia Meier, 86, passed away September 3, 2009 in Mexia, Texas. Graveside services will be 3:30 p.m. Sunday, September 6, 2009 at Peoples Cemetery in Boone County, Iowa. Caroline was born May 29, 1923 in Bouton, Iowa to Ray and Caroline Marie Stangl Hutcheson. She was a 1941 graduate of Perry High School. After receiving her teaching certificate from Simpson College,she enjoyed teaching for a few years in country schools. On June 4, 1946, she married Merton Wilfred Meier at Little Brown Church in the Vale in Nashua, Iowa. She was a very loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother. Caroline has been one of Jehovah's Witnesses since May 9, 1970. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; and brothers, Lyle, Leo and Jim Hutcheson. Caroline is survived by two daughters, Sharon Baldwin and husband, Roy of Soldotna, Alaska and Carol Sours and husband, Edwin of Mexia, Texas; one son, Donald Meier of Bouton, Iowa; eight grandchildren, Karen Porter, Michelle Parks, Tesiah Sours, Dathan Sours and wife, Debbie, Cameron Sours, Kearsten Sours, Chelsea Meier, Makayla Meier; one great-grandson, Logan Parks; two sisters, Juanita Freestone and MaDonna Batchelor of Johnston, Iowa; and a sister-in-law, Marie Hutcheson of Grimes, Iowa.