Barbara A. Meyer

Barbara Cleaveland Allen Meyer passed away Wednesday, January 21, 2015 in Carlsbad, NM. She was born December 2, 1915 to Edgar and Verna Allen in Rockford, Illinois. She graduated from Rockford College in 1938 and from Mount Holyoke College in 1940 with a Master's degree in zoology. Meyer subsequently worked at the Columbia University-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. She married Norman Meyer in 1941 and settled in New Jersey after WWII. Except for periods of time when the family lived in Mexico and Peru, Mrs. Meyer worked as a biology teacher, secretary, librarian and laboratory assistant at Rutgers University and the UNM School of Medicine. She retired in 1980. However, she saw her principal occupation as a homemaker. She was always active in church activities. After retiring, Mrs. Meyer helped establish a library at Mountainside Church in Cedar Crest, NM and was a docent at the New Mexico Natural History Museum in Albuquerque as well as at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park in Carlsbad, where her special love was the Reptile House. She served as deacon at First Presbyterian Church in Carlsbad. She traveled extensively in foreign countries and loved classical music, science and the outdoors. She was predeceased by her husband, Norman and her sisters: Lois Jane Truesdell and Elizabeth Butler. Survivors include her children: Elizabeth "Libby" Hooper and husband, Philip of Glen Haven, CO, Allen Meyer and wife, Kathleen of Boulder CO, Robert "Tito" Meyer and wife, Laura of Las Cruces, NM, Barbara Duffin and husband, Tom of Carlsbad, NM, Norman Meyer and wife, Millie of Albuquerque, NM as well as 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. A local memorial service will be held at a later date. Denton-Wood Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Landsun Homes, 2002 Westridge Road, Carlsbad, NM 88220, Carlsbad Community Foundation/Barbara Meyer Fund, 114 South Canyon Street, Carlsbad, NM 88220 or the Carlsbad First Presbyterian Church, 212 N. Halagueno Street, Carlsbad, NM 88220. Condolences may be expressed at dentonwood.com.