MYRA JO ROSE OBITUARY

Myra Jo Rose Dreyer

August 21, 1947 - March 4, 2001

Myra Jo Rose Dreyer of Longmont died Sunday, March 4, 2001, near Dacono, Colorado. She was 53. She was born August 21, 1947, to Joseph Q. and Anabel (Law) Rose in Colorado Springs.

She was a 1965 graduate of Longmont High School and attended Colorado State University, graduating in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.

On August 31, 1968, she married Donald P. Dreyer in Longmont.

Mrs. Dreyer moved to Longmont in December 1956 from Colorado Springs. She lived three years in Denver following her marriage and returned to Longmont in 1971. She was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority and the Spurs and Mortarboard Honorary Sororities at CSU. She was also a member of PEO Chapter M.

Mrs. Dreyer was a piano teacher. She taught many students in Longmont beginning in 1974 and continuing until her death. She was a member of the St. Vrain Music Association, the Sunshine Club and Boulder Meeting of Friends (Quaker). Mrs. Dreyer was a board member of the Longmont Council of the Arts and the Colorado Music Festival and president of the Longmont Chamber Music Association. She was a founding member of RAD (Responsible Adult Drivers), worked with the CHAMPS program of the St. Vrain Valley Schools, volunteered weekly at the OUR Center and with her husband, Don, served as a foster parent for Boulder County.

Mrs. Dreyer was preceded in death by her father, Joseph. She is survived by her husband, Donald of Longmont; her mother, Anabel of Longmont; two sons, Jay Dreyer and his wife Kristin of Manning, Iowa, and Lee Dreyer of Lincoln, Neb.; a sister, Deborah Guse and her husband Allan of Longmont; a niece, Allison Mackey and her husband Brian of Littleton; a nephew, Kevin Guse at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; and a great-nephew, Garrett Mackey.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, March 8, 2001, at First Evangelical Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Bruce A. Welander officiating. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 10, 2001, at Pine Knoll Cemetery, Hay Spring, Neb.

Memorial contributions may be made to the CHAMPS program or the Red Cloud Indian School of Pine Ridge, S.D., and mailed in care of Ahlberg Funeral Chapel, 326 Terry St., Longmont, Colorado 80501.