Conway Funeral Homes

   Diane M. Meyer, 60, of Cresco, Iowa, died Wednesday, October 24, 2007, at the Regional Health Services Hospital of Howard County surrounded by her loving family after a short, but courageous battle from cancer.   

     Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, October 29, 2007 at the Notre Dame Parish in Cresco, with burial in Howard Center Cemetery, in rural Lime Springs, IA. Visitation will be held from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Sunday at the Conway Funeral Home and an hour prior to services at the church on Monday. There will be a 7:00 P.M. Scripture service on Monday.

        Diane Marie Meyer was born August 27, 1947, in Cresco, IA, a twin of David and the third daughter of John F. and Lois M. (Peterson) Dotzler.  For a few years, Diane grew up in Winneshiek County near Kendallville. As a young girl, the family moved into Cresco where she attended school. Following her education, Diane stayed at home and helped her mother with her brothers and sisters.

   When Diane and Harold were fourteen years of age, they knew that the other was the one they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with, they dated and on September 7, 1968, Diane was united in marriage to Harold Z. Meyer at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Protivin, IA. They made their first home in Cresco and shortly after, on a family farm between Cresco and Protivin. She looked after children then, and in 1992 they moved into Cresco. She started a child day care operation where she continued her love for looking after children. She became a second mother to many children in the Cresco area for fourteen years.

   Diane enjoyed life to the fullest. Things she enjoyed most were working in the yard, gardening, baking, going for walks, fishing, camping, and visiting with family and friends. She loved the holidays so that she could bake and put on big Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners for everyone in her family. Diane never gave up the love for children and enjoyed having them around even after her children grew up and went on their own.

   Diane had been a member of the Rosary Society in Protivin and presently a member of  the Notre Dame Rosary Society. She donated much of her time working with her church groups. She volunteered in her children’s classrooms and school activities.

        Survivors include her husband Harold Meyer of Cresco; her daughter, Carla (Scott) Ludeking of Cresco, IA; two sons: Joseph (Melissa) Meyer of West Des Moines, IA, and Brandon Meyer of Cresco, IA; 4 grandchildren: Hunter, Rachel, and Gunner Ludeking; and Isabelle Meyer; her mother: Lois Dotzler of Cresco; her brothers and sisters: Janet Neubauer, Mary (Ralph) Flugge, Gary Dotzler, Dale Dotzler, Arlene Dotzler, Scott Dotzler, and Kenny Dotzler, all of Cresco, Shirley (Gerald) Hudecek of Mason City, her twin: David Dotzler of Elma, and Kathy (Donald “Fred”) Aberg of Winterset, IA, and her father in-law Zenas Meyer of Cresco, IA.

        She is preceded in death by her father, John; a sister in infancy, Angela Dotzler; a brother in-law Zach Neubauer; and mother in-law Dorothy Meyer.