Meredith Ann Liemohn

1938 - 2024

Meredith Ann Liemohn Meredith Ann Liemohn - age 85 of Louisville, TN passed on to her Heavenly home on Monday, June 17, 2024. She was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1938, in Holdrege, Nebraska to Henry John and Mildred Vione Smith Stuhmer. She grew up in Alma, Nebraska and learned retail business early by working in her parents' Ben Franklin Five and Dime Store. She learned early on to love music while singing in her high school and church choirs, playing piano and several band instruments. She graduated as valedictorian of her high school class and chose to go to Wartburg College (Lutheran) in Eastern Iowa. She was accepted into the Wartburg Choir with whom she toured many American states and five countries in Europe. This was a highlight of her life and cemented her love of sacred music. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Music Education degree and a double major in organ and voice. Her first teaching position was junior high vocal music on Long Island, New York, where she enjoyed many experiences in New York City. She then married Wendell Liemohn, the son of her beloved Wartburg Choir director, and followed him in his college and university teaching career. She taught elementary or junior high vocal music, or private piano lessons, played the organ and directed church choirs in Iowa City, Iowa; Houston, Texas; Hays, Kansas; Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Lincoln, Nebraska and Bloomington, Indiana. She and Wendell were blessed with two sons, Eric and Kirk, who have been the joy of her life. The boys and their wives have given them four beautiful granddaughters whom she dearly loved, plus a precious great granddaughter. After moving to Knoxville in 1978 Meredith became an employment counselor and "headhunter" in the computer field. She was hired as a manager for the KIEE employment department and successfully helped hire 6000 employees for the 1982 World's Fair in six months' time. During the Fair she was an Assistant to the Director and the Saudi Arabia Pavilion-a very exciting time. She then worked to recruit real estate companies for Realty World franchise in East Tennessee. She then opened and managed Realty World in The Mall in Foothills Mall, Maryville, for 14 years. She earned her Broker's license, was a Graduate of the Realtors' Institute and a Certified Residential Specialist. She then worked for another real estate company for a short time and in 2001 with nine others as a co-shareholder opened Town & Country Realtors of East TN Inc., again in Foothills Mall. In 2009 she started her own company, Smoky Mountain Recreation Properties, participating with Cabela's Trophy Properties, and serviced 30 counties in East Tennessee for hunting, fishing and other land properties. She sold that company in the fall of 2014 and "semi-retired" with her license back with Town & Country. In December of 2017 she completely retired her license. Wendell and Meredith moved to a waterfront property in Blount County in 1994 and enjoyed their life there. They continued to be active in their beloved Messiah Lutheran Church in Knoxville where Meredith was a long-time member of the choir and handbell choir, as well as chair of the Worship Ministries committee and a worship assistant. She believed strongly in giving back to her community. She served as President of the Blount County Association of Realtors, of Keep Blount Beautiful and of the Blount County Education Foundation. She was very active in the Blount County Chamber of Commerce and United Way and served on several committees there. She was Financial Director, Vice President, President and newsletter editor of the Knoxville Chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America (EGA), and served for nine years as secretary of the Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation. She was a 2001 graduate of Leadership Blount, a 2002 graduate of Experience Your Smokies and a 2008 graduate of the Blount County Master Gardeners. She loved her family and friends, classical music, opera, stitching, beading, gardening and their dogs. She loved traveling to many states in the U.S. and to 28 countries, most of them with Wendell. She was pre-deceased by her parents and her brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Neil and Janice Stuhmer; father and mother-in-law, Dr. Edwin and Clara Liemohn; and sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Muriel and Eugene Boedecker. Her beloved husband, Dr. Wendell Liemohn, died of Alzheimers in May 2021. She is survived by her son, Eric and his wife Belinda Chrisanne; granddaughter, Olivia and her husband Drew Thomas and their daughter Damaris Joy; granddaughter, Marilee and her husband Race Metzger; son, Kirk and his wife Catherine; granddaughters Alden and Megan Meredith; nephew, Tim Stuhmer and his wife Samantha their three children; niece, Tana Clare and her husband Dr. Dave Clare and their two sons; niece, Beth Boedecker and her husband Marvin and their three sons and their families; nephew, Paul Boedecker; and many friends and extended relatives. She loved her many friends in EGA, water exercise classes, Messiah Lutheran Church and community involvement. Thanks to all the staff at both Morning Pointe Hardin Valley and Westland. Thanks to Messiah Lutheran organist and choir director, Mary Phillips. A very special thanks from Meredith and her family to parish nurse, Mary Sophia Hawks, who was such a blessing. A celebration of her life will be held at Messiah Lutheran Church, 6900 Kingston Pike, Knoxville at 3:00 PM on Sunday, June 30, 2024, with Rev. Mark Cerniglia officiating. A reception and visitation will follow the service. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Messiah Lutheran Church Music Fund, Habitat for Humanity or Keep Blount Beautiful, both of Blount County. Arrangements by Bridges Funeral Home, 5430 Rutledge Pike, 865-523-4999. www.bridgesfuneralhome.com