Susan Margaret Meeter was born in Atchison, Kansas, on December 24, 1939, to Gordon and Lorene Meeter. As her father frequently transferred for his job in the steel industry, Susan grew up in several places across the Midwest and to the east, including Iowa, Indiana and Ohio, graduating from high school in Troy, New York.
Susan met her husband Daryll in 1957, while they were both students at the University of Missouri in Columbia, and they married in May 1958, a union that would last until death separated them 50 years later. Susan and Daryll soon settled in to family life, having their first child, Jennifer, when they lived in Houston, Texas, followed by Bill in Harrisonville, Missouri, and Patrick after they moved to Kansas City.
Susan remained a full-time mom and homemaker until 1975, when she began working part-time at First Federal Savings & Loan, a company she worked for until her retirement nearly 30 years later. Her husband Daryll passed away in 2008, and in 2014, she married Larry Guenther, later settling with him in Grove, Oklahoma, where he passed away in 2019.
Susan knew no enemies, as her soft demeanor and affable way found favor with those around her. She was beautiful, brilliant and long-suffering through all of life’s many challenges. She enjoyed time with her family, reading voraciously, playing cards, traveling throughout the U.S. (and internationally with Jennifer). In her later years, she found solace in faith in Jesus Christ, and in reading God’s Word and her daily devotional.
Susan leaves behind her children Jennifer and her husband Rocky Rutherford, Port Hueneme, California; Bill, Grove, Oklahoma; Patrick and his wife Liz, Blue Springs, Missouri, and grandchildren Stephen Walker, North Kansas City, Missouri; and Hannah Walker, Shawnee, Kansas.
A celebration of Susan’s life will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, September 27, at Mt. Moriah, Newcomer & Freeman Funeral Home, 10507 Holmes Road, Kansas City, MO 64131.
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