Kathryn Meyer, age 103 of Volga, peacefully slipped into the arms of her Lord on Sunday, September 24, 2023, at The Neighborhoods at Brookview in Brookings.  Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Friday, September 29th at the Volga Christian Reformed Church in Volga with burial to follow at Trinity Cemetery.  Visitations will be from 5-7 P.M. on Thursday, September 28th at Eidsness Funeral Chapel in Volga.

Kathryn Gertrude Schonewill was born August 24, 1920, in Volga, South Dakota the eldest child of Marcus and Helene (Vanden Berg) Schonewill. She peacefully slipped into the arms of her Lord at the age of 103, on Sunday, September 24, 2023, at The Neighborhoods in Brookings, South Dakota.

Kathryn attended country school and graduated with the Volga High School Class of 1938. She married Henry O. Meyer on April 5, 1940, at Volga. Kathryn and Henry purchased a farm north of Volga where they lived for the next sixty-nine years of married life until Henry's passing October 26, 2009. Kathryn continued to live on the farm for seven years after which time she became a resident of the Dakota Sun in Volga, South Dakota.

Kathryn was a member of the Volga Christian Reformed Church and in earlier years was active in many of the service programs. Kathryn dedicated her life in support of Henry's farming as well as to the care and nurturing of their children and grandchildren. She shared her creativity with baking- always cookies in the "cookie drawer" and with crocheting of a multitude of doilies and gifts.

Survivors include three daughters: Karen (Charles) Houtman of Canby, Minnesota, Shirleen Brown of Highland, Indiana and Vonda (John) Lohan of Watertown, South Dakota; two sons: Roger (Wanda Hai) of Volga, South Dakota and James (Paula) Meyer of Brookings, South Dakota; nineteen grandchildren; thirty-nine great grandchildren; one great-great grandchild and another expected; two sisters Laura Mans of Brookings, South Dakota and Carol Albright of Melbourne, Florida; and sister-in-law, Dorothy Schonewill of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two sisters- Gertrude and Ruth; three brothers-Edward, Burnette and Duane; and a son-in-law, Larry Brown.

Memorials are preferred to the Volga Christian School.