Eva Louise Meyer

Eva Louise Sammons Meyer was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1932, in New Boston, Ohio. The second child of Earl and Erma (Miller) Sammons. When the Ohio River flooded in 1937, the family relocated to Kentucky. Most elementary education was obtained in a one-room school followed by graduation from Lewis County Consolidate High School in Vanceburg, Kentucky, in 1949. She graduated the following year from Portsmouth Interstate Business College with a degree in Secretarial Science and worked in the commercial office of the telephone company until relocating to Washington Court House, Ohio following marriage to David W. Meyer in September of 1951. A union interrupted by his death in February of 2015. She was preceded in death by an older brother, Joe, newborn sister, Helen, and son-in-law, David Galisin. In 1968 she entered a year of practical nursing in Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida, followed by graduation from St. Petersburg Jr. College and with completion of state board examination, became a Registered Nurse. The years spent preceding retirement were spent with the hospice unit, first in St. Petersburg and later with Halifax Hospital Hospice unit in Daytona Beach. She is survived by three brothers, Fred, Noah, and Ralph Sammons; five sisters, Kay Davis, Margie Combs, Garnet Waldforgel, Sue Brahnam, and Sherry Nolen; two children, Jerry (Earlene) Meyer and Sheryl Galisin; three grandchildren, Melissa Prince, Martha (Joshua) Zustiak, and Jonathan Galisin; and 12 great-grandchildren. Eva became a Christian at 17 years old and worked faithfully alongside her minister husband until his death and has remained faithful in her Christian faith. She has made her home at the Cloisters in Deland, Florida for 17 years then moved to Woodland Towers for her final years.