Ginger was the funniest and most good natured woman I have ever met. With her snow white hair and her laugh, she woke up a room. Even with the painof her arthritis, she was always laughing, always smiling, always aunt Ginger. Ginger was the youngest of 5 girls born in a small town named Hillsboro, New MExico. Gingers mother died when Ginger was just 18 months old. The 5 girls were distributed to several family members. Ginger went to live wih her fathers mother Amelia Schertz-Meyers. Once Gingers father Charles Emil Meyers got situated, he took 4 of his daughters back, however because Ginger was so young, he left her with his mother Amelia. All of this took place in Hillsboro, New Mexico, so Ginger saw her father and siblings all the time. A funny story Gingers sister Lillian Augusta Meyers-Sanders still tells today (at the ripe old age of 99) is that even though their grandmother AMelia was a stiff-strong old german woman, Ginger had Amelia wrapped around her little fingers. When Ginger was a young girl, and wanted to go out, and didn't have her grandmothers permission...Ginger would lock her grandmother in her bedroom and then run out of the house..leaving her grandmother banging on the bedroom door and demanding to be let out! Such are many stories of Gingers mischievious personality. Knowing the stories of the stern Amelia Meyers, you would have thought that Ginger would have gotten into alot of trouble...nope, little Ginger, with her dancing eyes and laughter never paid the price for her pranks..how could anyone, even her old stern german grandmother, ever be too angry with Ginger! No one could.
Donna Zimmerman
great neice of Ginger
grandaughter of Lillian Augusta Meyers, Gingers sister
Additional Info:
Aunt Ginger married a man by the name of Edward Logan Howard when she was very young and they are found together in the 1940 census