Meri Straz Obituary

Of Esopus, NY & West Palm Beach, FL, August 5, 50, in a horse back riding accident, at Frog Hollow Farm in Esopus, NY. She is survived by her mother Joy Straz & her husband Thomas Straz of Spring Hill, FL, her sister Terri Wall & husband Richard H. Wall Jr. of Plymouth. Also survived by her father Thomas Melville & wife Eleanor of Canton, CT & brothers, Thomas Melville of NJ, Michael Melville of NY & Scott Melville of CT. She also leaves her aunts, Sybil Hallsworth of Quincy, MA, Rusty Fitts of Birdsboro, PA & her great aunt Anna Lang of Sanbornville, NH, as well as many cousins & special friends. Preceding her in death were her maternal grandparents Marian & Herbert Thwing, & paternal grandparents, Mildred & Thomas Melville. A Memorial Service will be held in the Riding Ring at Ashberry Hill Farm, Home of Terri & Richard H. Wall Jr., 178 Gunner's Exchange Rd, Plymouth, MA from 2-4 PM on Thursday, August 11. Donations in her memory may be made to H.E.A.R.T. (Humane Equine Aid + Rapid Transport) PO Box 96, N. Hampton, MA 01060. Arrangements by the Richard Davis Funeral Homes of PLYMOUTH & Manomet

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Published by Boston Globe on Aug. 10, 2005.

Memories and Condolences
for Meri Straz

6 Entries

Junior Wall

August 16, 2020

I met Meri.....before she knew how to ride, we are all gonna miss her

Rich Peterson

September 14, 2005

I knew Meri only slightly, having met her as a clinician at the USEA adult horse camp at GMHA in 2002 and again in 2005. I just learned of her death a few days ago.

By luck of the draw I did not ride with her either year, but only socialized a little when the clinicians would hang out with the riders after-hours at the Kedron Valley Inn. In 2002, I happened to try to share a bar stool with her Jack Russell "Jane". Meri told me to be careful as Jane was not always friendly, and had some lumps under her skin that didn't like to be probed the way I was probing them thinking they might be ticks - but at the same time she let it happen under a watchful eye and accepted it as Jane accepted it. There was something about the way she extended that tentative trust to a stranger, and trusted Jane's decision, that struck me as something extraordinary.

In 2005, it was Meri who persuaded me that driving back over Morgan Hill to my B&B after the celebration at the inn broke up was not a good idea, found me a place to stay, and drove me there. The next day when I went back to my B&B, the owner told me how her son had been paralyzed 17 years ago from a car crash coming over the same road after a night of partying. I think of Meri as my guardian angel that night, as she was an angel to the horses she served with her ambulance. And as I've learned now after her death, guardian angel was a role that came naturally to her.

Millicent Hughes

August 31, 2005

I knew Meri from Vermont years ago,where I was surprised to find her waiting tables in my neighborhood restaurant, Windsor Sation. She explained this by saying she did it to pay her barn help.She did not want to become exhausted by care-taking activities, but wanted her mind clear and body fresh to teach and ride the entire day. I thought it was an interesting take -- it wasn't the hours there, but the quality of the hours there...I guess that was Meri.

Anna Sollami

August 21, 2005

I will always remember our visits when you were a child,and your love for horses. Rest in peace Meri.

Aunt Anna

joy straz

August 20, 2005

My only solace at his time is that you left this world, as we know it, instantly - without pain and doing the one thing you loved, literally, more than life itself... There are no words to express my pain - but no Mother was ever more proud of a daughter, as I was and am, my beloved Meri..

May you ride your imaginary childhood friend, Pegasus, in that great Olympics in the sky - I know you shall achieve that gold!!

Your Mom

Marcy Sposito

August 12, 2005

Meri

Your life's work on earth is done !

Surely your new journey will be a peaceful one !

Marcy

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