Nancy Meisner Obituary

Longtime Ignacio community supporter Nancy Ruth Meisner died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, in Ignacio. She was 73.

Mrs. Meisner was born to Harold and Virginia Mick on June 1, 1937, in Lathrop, Mo. The Mick family moved to Colorado in 1949.

On Sept. 13, 1954, she married the man her family called "the love of her life," Gary Meisner in Elizabeth. They moved to Ignacio in 1972.

The Meisners ran several businesses, including Main Liquor, the laundromat and a movie-rental business.

Her family said Mrs. Meisner was a great supporter of the community. She was a member of the Southern Ute Community Action Program Board of Directors for many years. Mrs. Meisner supported all local school activities, including Space Camp. She also was the local community gossip coordinator, her family said.

She was an avid crocheter and embroiderer.

Mrs. Meisner was preceded in death by her husband of 33 years, Gary Meisner, in 1987.

She is survived by her daughters Laurie Simons of Allison and Kim Williamson of Torrington, Wyo.; sons Arthur Meisner of Hesperus and Gary P. Meisner of Durango; sisters Dorothy Allison of Fresno, Calif., and Shirley Read of York, Maine; brothers Tom Mick of Parker and David Mick of Kent, Wash.; 14 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.

Cremation has occurred. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, at Spring Creek Hall, which is located at the intersection of Colorado Highway 151 and County Road 334. Burial of ashes will take place at the Allison-Tiffany Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be sent to SUCAP, P.O. Box 800, Ignacio, CO 81137. Flowers may be sent to the The Patio Restaurant, 85 Goddard Ave. in Ignacio.