Elissa D. Meininger, 75, was born July 27, 1944 to Edwin Cornell Rinker III and Charlotte (Lotte) Braun Rinker in Morristown, New Jersey, and died December 13, 2019 in Oklahoma City. She attended Miss Gill’s School, Bernardsville, New Jersey finishing at Institut Chateau Beau-Cedre, Montreux, Switzerland.
On August 8 1964, she married Jutson C. Meininger with whom she lived in New Jersey and Oklahoma City until his passing on February 8, 2008. Following his death, she resided in Sulphur, Oklahoma and Austin, Texas until her return to Oklahoma City in May, 2015.
Elissa enjoyed training and riding horses. She wrote stories for a local horse magazine, Pasitrote, and was at one point been on the board of the Oklahoma Horse Commission.
She was active in the Junior League in Oklahoma City, where she and Jut were both trained in Transactional Analysis by Bob and Mary Goulding, a field which Jut became active in, bringing these principles to business management with publishing and consulting.
Elissa was involved in political matters pertaining to the field of Natural Healing Arts (1994-2019)as a health policy analyst specializing in the history and politics of natural healing arts. This interest was spawned by the fact that in the mid-1980s, she almost died of mercury poisoning from dental fillings, something which traditional medicine did and does not teach how to diagnose or treat. Searching her name on Google yields 10 pages many of which link to articles or books she wrote or co-wrote with others such as Carolyn Dean, MD. ND.
In 1994, Elissa became the principle architect of changes in Oklahoma medical laws to protect MDs who wanted to offer homeopathic, nutritional, herbal and other non-allopathic medical services. That year, she received the Citizen Activist Award from Citizens for Health for her leadership in passage of the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994. She provided testimony and a paper for a White House Commission on Complementary Medicine. In 1996, she served as Interim Chair of the National Reform Party’s Health Issues Committee.
She was a contributor to the Bolen Report and News with Views where she was able to talk about many issues that were on her mind; her research was vast. She had been on the radio for several years called the Meininger Minute, a short segment reporting on local political issues.
She had a very full life including travels to D.C., Dubai, Bermuda, Acapulco, Switzerland and more. She was an amazing storyteller of her fantastic adventures. We invite you to share the stories you remember her telling in hopes of gathering them into the collection she always threatened to write herself.
She is preceded in death by her parents and by her husband of forty-four years. She is survived by numerous friends and colleagues and by her sister, Belinda Phillips of Compton, NH, and by nieces, Tania Phillips and Larissa Phillips and nephew Karlton Phillips as well as several great nephews.
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