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 Florence P. Meyer, 94
 February 27, 2012
LENOX, Mass. — Florence P. Meyer, 94, of Kimball Farms died Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center.
Born in Jeffersonville, N.Y., on April 25, 1917, to Samuel and Sadie Shapiro, she graduated from Jeffersonville High School at the age of 16 but was unable to attend college. She lived in Somers, N.Y., for many years and moved to Kimball Farms in 2005 to be nearer her daughter.
Mrs. Meyer held a number of jobs before her marriage to her high school sweetheart, Robert H. Meyer. With his employment at American Electric Power Co., the couple moved in 1939 to New York City, where she was a homemaker and mother to their young daughter. She worked at Ludwig Bauman's Department Store and did volunteer work for the war effort when her husband joined the Navy in 1941. After his return to his engineering job in 1946, the couple purchased a home in Somers.
In Somers, Mrs. Meyer found her true calling. She was a master gardener and flower arranger. Her flower arrangements won numerous awards, including an arrangement published in the Federated Garden Clubs of America annual calendar book. She studied ikebana, Japanese art of flower arranging and was a member of the Daffodil Society. Her orchids were amazing and her greenhouse was a winter paradise. She was a longtime volunteer at Lasdon Park and Arboretum in Somers, working in the gardens and doing flower arrangements at the historic property.
After her husband's death, she moved to a condo in Heritage Hills in Somers. It was there she nourished her mind, taking as many courses at Westchester Community College and State University of New York at Purchase as she could fit into her busy life. She took Elderhostel trips and others to fill her need to find out as much as she could about other parts of the world. One of the highlights was her trip to China. She was in Beijing when the students were rebelling and was on the first planeload of Americans departing. "I was where history was being made!" she said. Her journals of her trips make fascinating reading and her only regret was that she never got to Thailand.
Her husband, whom she married on Oct. 22, 1935, died on March 31, 1977.
She leaves her son, Richard S. Meyer and his wife, Susan, of Tucson, Ariz.; her daughter, Sybil-Ann Sherman and her husband, Harry, of Williamstown; three grandsons, five great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
Her brothers Harold and Irving Shapiro and her sister, Ruthe Gottfried, are deceased.
FUNERAL NOTICE — A graveside service for Mrs. Meyer will be held at Ivandale Cemetery in Somers, N.Y., at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to HospiceCare in the Berkshires, 877 South St., Suite 1W, Pittsfield, MA 01201 or Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center, Staff Appreciation Fund, 40 Sunset Ave., Lenox, MA 01240. Flynn & Dagnoli Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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