Scottsbluff Star Hearld Scottsbluff, NE 2 Aug 2007 MINATARE - Theodore F. "Ted" Meyers, 81, a lifelong Minatare resident died Monday, July 30, 2007, at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha with his family by his side. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, Aug. 3, at Dugan-Kramer Funeral Chapel in Scottsbluff with Pastor James Harris officiating. Interment will be in Sunset Memorial Park with military rites given by the Nebraska Army National Guard. A memorial has been established to St. James Lutheran Church. Tributes of sympathy may be left at www.dugankramer.com. Friends may call at the funeral home between 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday. Ted was born June 20, 1926, in Minatare to Fred and Amanda (Kriewald) Meyers. He grew up on the family farm and attended Minatare schools graduating from Minatare High School in 1944. He was inducted into the United States Army and served his country proudly from 1945 to 1947. After his honorable discharge from the Army he returned to Minatare to run the family farm and dairy operation. After his retirement he worked campaigns at the sugar factory in Bayard. He married Darlene Strauch April 4, 1978, in Kimball. Ted loved working in his yard and gardening. Survivors include his wife Darlene; brother, Herb Meyers of Minatare; sister-in-law, Jean Meyers of Renton, Wash.; stepchildren, Hope and Scott Miller and Dennis and Eva Strauch all of Mitchell; grandchildren, Lori and Peter Schaar of Coolidge, Ariz., Stacy and Jeff Darnell of Aurora, Colo., Nichole and Nick Case of Omaha, Neb., Kellan Strauch of Lincoln, Neb. and Blake Strauch of Mitchell; great-grandchildren, Trevor Fink, Alyissa Reyes, Alexsis and Austin Schaar all of Coolidge, Ariz. and Samantha Darnell of Aurora, Colo.; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother Robert Meyers.