Submitted by: Dan Rich

Roland Edwin Meyer

Nov. 14, 1906 - Dec. 2, 2007

South Bend Tribune 12/5/2007
GRANGER - Roland Edwin Meyer, 101, of Bumwood Road, Granger, formerly of Grape Road, died Sunday morning in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center. Roland retired in 1971 from the Bendix Brake Division after 30 years. He was born Nov. 14, 1906, in South Bend, to Arthur and Ethel (Barnhart) Meyer.

On October 15, 1927, in South Bend, he married Gladys N. Gill, who died February 22, 1991. A daughter, Betty Summerville, granddaughter, Judy, his sister, Mabel Nielson, and his brother, Howard, preceded him in death. Survivors include two sons, Donald E. (Ardis) Meyer of Granger, Leonard E. (Martha) Meyer of Sandy, UH; 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Grace Thomas of Mishawaka. Roland was a member of First Seventh-day Adventist Church of South Bend and United Auto Workers Local 9.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7, in the HICKEY Funeral Homes, 17131 Cleveland Road (between Ironwood and Grape Roads), with Pastors Don Inglish and Throstur Thordarson officiating. Interment will take place at St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, and one hour before services in the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the South Bend Junior Academy Library, c/o First Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1936 E. Altgeld, South Bend, IN 46614.