This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oh0.2ACEB/1828 Message Board Post: William C. Meyer of Haddam, celebrated his 100th birthday in April with family and friends. He died in his sleep at Harbor Hill Health Care in Middletown on Tuesday, (November 18, 2003). He was born April 24, 1903 in New York City, the son of Charles and Frieda Bergman Meyer. He moved to Haddam at age 8. As a boy he was present at the opening of the East Haddam Bridge which at that time cost three cents to walk across one way and five cents to ride. He attended the two-room Haddam School House, which in now used as a Senior Center, and the Higganum Union School. In the 1920's he moved back to New York where he attended N.Y.U. and married his wife Dorothy. He started his life long career as a business and manufacturing consultant for Stephanson, Jordan & Harrison and he traveled extensively throughout the United States. These were the early days of aviation when if the plane was relatively empty you could go up to the cockpit and talk with the pilot and even handle the contro! ls. Mr. Meyer related one trip where the pilot landed in a muddy cornfield because he could not find the airport and on another trip he flew to Chicago with Jimmy Durante. Bill Meyer moved back to Haddam in 1956 where he bought and remodeled an old house built in the early 1700"s that his wife had long admired. Bill Meyer was a vociferous reader and was invited to attend the laying of the cornerstone of the addition to the Haddam Library. He kept fit by walking a hilly two miles each way twice a week to the library until he was 90 years old. His wife Dorothy died in 1995. He is survived by one brother, Robert Meyer of Atlanta, Michigan; three children, William C. Meyer of Stonington, Kevin Meyer of Lake Shawnee, NJ, Dr. Patricia Meyer of New Haven; six Grandchildren, four Great Grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a sister; Lillian Cates. Services will be private. Mystic Funeral Home, Route 1, Mystic has assisted the family with arrangements. Pu! blished in the Hartford Courant on 11/30/2003. (Volunteer Published)