MARVIN C. MEYER

JACKSON -- Memorial service for Marvin Clinton Meyer of Orono, Maine, was held April 7 at Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono. He was professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Maine in Orono.

Meyer, 84, died unexpectedly Friday, April 3, 1992, at a Bangor, Maine, hospital.

He was born Dec. 20, 1907, at Jackson, son of Louis F. and Odessa Ates Meyer. He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 1932, and received a master's degree from Ohio State University in 1936.

Meyer taught at the University of Kentucky from 1939-41, taught a year at Rutgers University, and served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1942-46. He taught at the University of Maine from 1946-73.

He was also active in the Army Reserves, retiring in 1968 as lieutenant colonel. Meyer had been active in many scientific organizations in the U.S., and attended several international congresses and symposiums in Rome, Warsaw and Washington.

Meyer co-authored "Essentials of Parasitology" with the late O. Wilford Olsen, which was first published in 1971.

Meyer was a member of numerous professional societies and fraternities. He was a fulbright research scholar to New Zealand in 1955-56, and spent a year as senior post-doctorate visiting research associate at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., in 1967-68.

He was a member of Mechanic Lodge 66 AF&AM of Orono, Scottish Rite Bodies, Valley of Bangor, and served terms on the boards of deacons and trustees of the Church of the Universal Fellowship.

Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth; two daughters, Susan Durst of Zornheim, Germany, Annette Horn of Dover, N.H.; a son, Clinton Meyer of Wilmington, N.C.; a brother, Joe Lynn Meyer of Jackson, and nine grandchildren.