The family moved to West Chester so that Dad could start his construction business while working nights at General Electric testing aircraft engines. Dad always said it was the saddest time in his life to lose his dream of being a farmer, his livelihood and his daughter all on the same day. The farm was scheduled to be auctioned off during the untimely death of our sister, Deborah Sue, on March 26, 1955. Mom would drive him in the car if he wouldnt go to sleep to try to get him to nod off. Mom and Dad started their married life living on one of Dads uncles dairy farms. Mom found a $5 bill hidden in her wallet, so they barely made it back to the farm. On their return home, they were running short on money and thought that they might not have enough gas to get back home. Mom and Dad honeymooned for two weeks, visiting New York City to see plays and then heading over to Niagara Falls. Aunt Puffy did marry Uncle George in August the same year that Mom and Dad were married. But rumor has it that Mom wanted her own special day. and his wife, Clara, were hoping for a double wedding that year with their son and daughter being married on the same day. Henrietta recovered well enough to attend the evening reception. Her mother, Henrietta, had to stay in bed due to low blood pressure and wasnt able to attend the wedding service, so Moms Aunt Mary stepped in for her sister. 27, 1952, at a morning wedding, followed by a brunch. Mom and Dad were married on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. Mom met Dad through Aunt Puffy when she invited Mom to a sleepover at her house. Dads sister, Mary Frances (Aunt Puffy), attended St. She had many beaus (we still have her prom corsages to prove it). Her class visited Washington, D.C., on a senior trip. She planted flowers and herbs in her landscaping beds and had the entire back deck covered in potted plants. She especially loved maidenhair ferns but never had much luck in keeping them alive. If more than three bouquets were in the house at the same time, it would remind her of a funeral, but we never knew why. Her favorite flowers were lilies of the valley, lilacs and gardenias. She always loved flowers and plants, and spent much time gardening. While in high school, Mom had a part-time job working at Jones The Florist, which was located inside the Alms Hotel. Even though rubber was rationed, Mom received a note from her doctor so that she could get a bicycle to use to go home during the school day to take a special medication that had to be refrigerated. While she was in grade school, she received a bicycle in a usual way. The nickname of Susie stuck until after too much teasing from her classmates about the Cincinnati Zoos most popular attraction, a gorilla also named Suzie, she shorten her nickname to Sue. Her cousin Bud referred to her as Suzie-Q even before she was born. Her father and mother were hard-working people, with Ralph being an electrician at the University of Cincinnati and Henrietta working in a spring factory. Beverly Ann Meyer was born July 12, 1934, at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Henrietta Rief and Ralph Ryan. Beverly Sue Meyer, 78, a former librarian who loved to travel, a devout Catholic, and wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away suddenly on April 17, 2013.
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