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Kevin Mark Meyer

Kevin Meyer Obituary

MEYER -Kevin Mark Meyer, of Monrovia passed away on June 9 he is survived by his mother Zella Meyer. Memorial services will 1:00pm Friday June 13, 2003 at Douglass & Zook Mortuary, Monrovia.

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Published by Pasadena Star-News on Jun. 12, 2003.

Memories and Condolences
for Kevin Meyer

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17 Entries

Kathy Thompson

January 11, 2020

Kevin and I were great friends in H.S., and even dated for a while. Lost touch after graduation. While perusing today for our 50th class reunion, I learned he had passed away. In his memory, today I played the music box he brought me back from Europe in 1970, or so. My heart is very sad today. Much Love to you Kevin. Kathy (Bruckner) Thompson

1985

July 8, 2015

Thank you for posting......Don't know if you know but Zella passed away last November. She, Mark and Kevin are all together now. Hope all is well with you. Morgan

March 30, 2015

Hi, sue davison....Kevin was a soulmate, 8 years old, we stood toe to toe....loved nobody like him.... <3

June 9, 2012

Hey there buddy. Well it's June 3rd again so I thought I'd get up early and send you a note. It's a little after 4 a.m. here. I just made a pot of coffee and put Beatles 65 on the box to listen to while I wrote you.
Things are move on here pretty much as usual. I'm still working with the Provost Marshal on Fort Sam Houston. The biggest news there is the Air Force has taken over management of the post and we're now called the 502d Security Forces Squadron. So I guess it looks like I'll end up retiring from the Air Force twice. I only have a couple more years to retire. It's been 34 years since that morning you drove me down to leave for basic training. So much has happened in all these years. At times it seems like such a short time ago and other times forever.
Sarah had her baby on July 29, 2010. She just missed my birthday by 3 days. Kaleigh Morgan is such a beautiful little girl. Her Mom and Dad treat her so well. She's so full of life. They are living near Cal's family in Canada about an hour from Toronto. The town's called Orilla. It's a very small town, Sarah is so very happy and it shows through Kaleigh. You'd love her. Cal is a good man and thinks the world of Sarah. We're very lucky to have him in our family.
Emily has made her way to finding herself. It wasn't always easy for her but today I can say with complete honesty that she's pointed in the right direction. Just like my illness, you can talk to anyone about it but you can only truly understand it with someone who's lived through it them self. Emily is living in Kerrville which is about an hour west of San Antonio on I-10. She works helping others make it through to the light. She's really committed to what she does and you can see it in her. You have no idea how much it makes me happy to see her finally living her life with a purpose.
The music as always goes on and on. Spent a lot of time working with my friend Ernie on more songs. We're starting a second CD for him to sell when he plays his gigs. We're recording lots of classic country songs that we both enjoy. I'll bet you'd enjoy recording some of the songs with us. We try and record as much as we can before the weather gets hot. During the hottest months we try and get together early in the morning and then knock it off around 11.
Here's something cool. Glen Whoolery and I were talking on-line a few months ago and we started talking about old songs we used to do when we were kids. Bill Dragoo who played drums with us gets to talking and Glen asks if we remember a song we wrote and played in 1967 called “Tupelo” . I remembered the title but not much more. So Bill says wouldn't it be really cool if we could play it again. Well……this is the 21st Century and Glen and I both have our home studios and Bill who's still playing strong has access to one so we say let's give it a try. Glen who lives in Pennsylvania puts a couple of guitar and voice tracks down. He send me the tracks and I add the bass and some harmony tracks. Bill gets our parts and adds his drums and puff we're back in 1968 only a lot better musically and recording. It sounds like were right in the same room playing a song we last did nearly 45 years ago….so cool. I sure wish you were here to and some harmony parts. Glen asked me a few weeks ago about adding a fiddle and harmonica so I'm working on them right now. I know if you were here you'd get such a kick out of it. We've come a long way since those guitars from Johnson's Music and that Radio Shack 909 reel to reel. We never imagined all the great music we made over the years I just wish that you were still here to be a part of it my friend. But in a way you still are.
Well I guess that's the Cliff Notes for another year. Rest assured that your memory is alive and well and will always stay that way. Not just with me but with Sarah and Emily as well. I drove up to see Emily a few weeks ago and when she took me into her bedroom she had yours and Uncle Buddy's pictures framed on her dresser. She's always asking me about some song she's heard saying wasn't that a song you and Kevin used to play or had recorded. She still loves our version of “Everything is Broken”.
I'll write again next year God willing and tell you how life's going. Keep looking down on us and put in a good word for us up there. Say hi to your Dad, Uncle Buddy and anyone else you see. You're still the best friend anyone ever had in this life.
Keep smiling my friend.
Morgan

Morgan

June 5, 2010

Hey there Bud - Seven years today since you crossed that bridge. Man that just seems like such a long time but also like it was only yesterday. Things are still about the same since the last time we talked. I'm still working at unlocking the door to good recording. I bought a new guitar a couple of months ago. It's an Epiphone Master Built. I know it's not a Gibson but it's a real solid piece of wood. Good deep bass and crisp high strings. I've used it on a couple of recordings and it really is hard to tell from one of the Martins. I think you'd like it a lot. I've been recording with this fellow I met a couple of years ago thru my Bluegrass friends. His name is Ernie and he has a voice like silk. We've recorded about 9 or 10 tunes together and I'm real happy with them. What makes it all the more fun is that Ernie is 77 years old and he still has the voice of a man Half that age. It's a lot of fun because we're doing songs like Sentimental Journey (your Dad would love that), Spanish Eyes as well as a lot of country standards from the 50's and 60's. He plays the most awesome piano you've ever heard. You don't know how much I sure wish you were here to join in.

Some really big news of the Kids side. Sarah and her boyfriend are going to have a baby. She's due the first week or so of August. Today on your day, she had her Baby Shower. She told me she thought about you and wished you could have been here. The baby is a girl and her name will be Kaleigh Morgan. It's seems such a short time ago that I held Sarah on the night she was born and she grabbed my finger with her little hand and squeezed and held on to me so tightly. WOW! Can you believe me a Grand Dad!

Emily is working hard and finding her way in life as well. She wants so much to be an artist. She has a boyfriend as well and they have an apartment over near where Maureen works. Maureen is working tonight but says "Hi" as well. Since you've been gone she's taken over the role as my Chief Music Critic. I don't let anything go out of the studio until she has a listen and gives it her thumbs up. Just like you, she catches things I don't hear. She's really good at helping with the instrument levels.

I got a promotion at my job this year but I'm still just "a simple servant of the people Mr. President". I enjoy working with the Provost Marshal and have met a bunch of real good people. There's a few that I consider life long friends now.

It will be five years this August 29th since they found and took care of my cancer. So far I've been getting a clean bill of health and I'm thankful every day. At the five year mark the survivability rate goes into the upper 90%s so keep your fingers crossed for me. I found out a month ago that I've got a case of Diabetes so I've had to start monitoring my blood sugers and taking meds to get it under control. I've been able to do that easier than I thought I could. I just have to pay attention the the things I eat. I've also enrolled at Gold's Gym to help by exercising and getting a bit of weight off me. I lost a bunch of weight after my cancer but I need to get more off to get things under control. I can tell you that I feel a lot better with the blood suger number under control. Lots more energy.

Still have your picture up here in the studio with your Strat. Also the one we took at Griffith Park at the Train Museum. Do you remember the one of us standing on the back of the caboose? Oh and I have the one of us at the beach in North Carolina. I've always liked that one.

Well I guess I'd better rap this up and hit the send button. Truth be known I could sit here and write about things for the next couple of hours with no trouble at all.

One final thing, Kit sent me an email late last year. Needless to say I about fell out of my chair. She had seen your page and just wanted to say hello. She sounded real good (in her writing) just like the Kit we always knew. I had a computer crash just after I received it and I lost her email completely. I had wanted to write back and let her know how much I appreciated her reading these ramblings and writing to me. If I here from her again I won't wait to reply.

So you take care my old friend whereever your pickin at to night. Give em a beat and let em know what you're doing...Thanks Mark! Say hello to Uncle Buddy for me. Tell em I'll probely be seeing em sooner rather than later. Be safe until we talk again.

Morgan

June 9, 2008

Hello My Friend. Well today is five years since you left us. It seems so long and yet sometimes so short a time. I've been keeping busy playing music with the guys in the Bluegrass band every Tuesday evening at Grady's BB-Q. I've been able to slip in a few Prine tunes this year. Got em doin' Paradise, Grandpa was a Carpenter, Frying Pan, and recently Everybody...too cool huh. Everytime I do Paradise I always look up through the skylights and imagine you're looking in on us. I always wish you were here to do the harmony line. A few of us have been doing some recording here at the house. We've go about seven or eight good tracks laid down so far. I'll bet you'd really like em. I'm still doing the Civil Service thing at Fort Sam. It's a paycheck but nothing exciting. Maureen and I had our 20th anniversary on May 20th. We went to the Grey Moss Inn near Helotes......good grub! Emily took some really nice photos of us just before we went to dinner. We compared them to the ones on our wedding day.....scarry! My cancer is still in check. I passed the two year point since finishing chemo in April. Thats a BIG marker in the cancer business. The survival rate goes into the high 80%'s then. The next big marker is at five years. We'll have to wait and see if we make it there. I just have to figure that God must be keeping me around for some purpose cause it sure isn't for my singing ;-) Maureen and the girls are doing well. Emily has had a few ups and downs this past year but we're seeing some light at the end of the tunnel now. Sarah has been living on her own for a year and a half now and somehow is making it work with only a little help for us. Emily has your cowboy hat and that picture of us that Debbie Knara took up at the apartment on Stedman in her room.....and get this ......she thinks Bob Dylan is a God! She loves all his early stuff like Highway 61 Revisited....Sarah on the other hand now knows more Beatle lyrics by heart then we ever did. She wants a turntable so she can listen to the albums ...."Very Cool" she says. I guess that's about all the news for now. We're still hanging in here but there's not a day goes by that I don't think about you and Uncle Buddy! I hope you're well and are finding peace. One day we'll all meet up again and play and sing again I promise. Take care until then my old friend.....

Morgan

June 9, 2007

Well ole buddy how's it goin' I'm sorry I didn't get to write here last year. I was just getting over the "Chemo" I had gone through for the Big "C". It was a tough fight but so far so good. Finally got the heart to get back into playing music and recording. Been doing a "Bluegrass Thang" every week and working with a few folks I've met. Not bad, but not ever as good as us! I actually played in front of a "real" audience last weekend. There was a Cancer Survivors Days at Fort Sam and we played. I took your hat with me and put it up on the stage. Just wouldn't seem right with you not being up there on the stage with me in some way. Hope you're cheerin' for the Spurs. Might be number 4 this year! Game 2 is tomorrow. Hope you and Uncle Buddy are finding some time to pick a little. "Give em a beat - Let em know what you're doing". I sure do miss that a lot! Everyone here misses you and says hello. Take care my old friend.

Morgan

June 9, 2005

Well, it's been two years today since we lost you. Just wanted to let you know that the music lives on as does your memory with all of us. Hope you're playing with Uncle Bud somewhere tonight. Give him a wink back for me! We miss you.

Don & Beth Doot

September 23, 2003

We remember sharing many happy times with Kevin and his parents - usually over meals, picnics, barbeques, etc. And Don often talks about playing tennis with Kevin. He will be missed by many.

Neta Wrigtht

August 30, 2003

Nephew, I will miss the many discussions of music, and life. We seemed to always have something to share. Randy and John will miss you too.

Adele Osborn

August 27, 2003

From our first date on April 4, 1969, I knew Kevin would be someone special in my life. We stayed friends thru all the years, all the ups and downs. I will remember him all of my life, will think of him...and smile.

Happy birthday today, Kev.

Linda (Cerrito) Peltier

June 21, 2003

My sincere condolences to Kevin's family and friends.

Linda (Cerrito) Peltier

Gary and Debbie Johnson(McCullagh)

June 19, 2003

We were very sorry to hear of Kevin's passing. Although we were not close in school, we remember his great smile and pleasant attitude. He will be missed, but not forgotten.Please accept our sincere condolences.

Daniel Bagwell

June 16, 2003

Our deepest sympathy to family and friends of Kevin's. The class of 1970 was better because of you. Marie and Dan Bagwell.

Morgan Lusk

June 12, 2003

No one could ever have deserved as good a friend as you. Through all of the ups and downs for 40 years we always found a common ground that let us carry on like we were stuck in 1967. Playing and recording the music or just listening to Prine or Jerry Jeff will never be the same again. I know the last few years were rough on you but you fought the good fight and now your spirit has earned it’s rest. We're all better for the good things you brought to our lives and less because you’ve gone so soon. Sleep well old friend.

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