1926 - 2017 (91 years)
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Name |
Stuart Paul MEERSCHEIDT |
Birth |
3 Apr 1926 |
Nogales, Santa Cruz, Arizona, USA |
- at 9:10 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital
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Gender |
Male |
Death |
2 Jun 2017 |
Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA |
Burial |
Masonic Cemetery, Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA |
Person ID |
I2660 |
von Rosenberg Family Tree |
Last Modified |
22 Sep 2021 |
Father |
Hilmar Frank MEERSCHEIDT, b. 5 Dec 1894, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA d. 21 Dec 1976, Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA (Age 82 years) |
Mother |
Esther Irene STUART, b. 12 Jan 1896, Crawford, Dawes, Nebraska, USA d. 9 May 1985, Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA (Age 89 years) |
Marriage |
30 Jun 1920 |
Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA |
- by the Rev. T. L. Lallance at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church
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Family ID |
F6833 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Betty Jean Hall LOOMIS, b. 8 Sep 1932, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA d. 17 Aug 2004, Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA (Age 71 years) |
Marriage |
19 Nov 1951 |
Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA |
- in St. Paul’s Methodist Church by Rev. A. C. Douglas
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Children |
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Family ID |
F2097 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
3 Mar 2014 |
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Notes |
- Stuart’s family moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, as a small child where he attended school before graduating from New Mexico State Univeristy in 1949 with a degree in Agricultural Engineering. While in college he lettered in basketball and was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. In 1950, Stuart received a master’s degree in engineering from Utah State University. After college, Stuart worked for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Smith Machine Company of Texas. He purchased the Las Cruces branch of that company and renamed it Butte Pump Company. He operated the business until selling it in 1960. In 1968, Stuart founded Jornada Water Company, which was a private water utility which he sold in 1982. Stuart became Doña Ana County Roads Superintendent in 1964. He is a former chairman of the county’s Planning and Zoning Commission. From 1968 until 1989 Stuart owned Desert Drydoc, a boat and marine engine dealership. He also operated a 35-acre pecan orchard in Mesilla Valley, New Mexico, which was started by his parents. He retired in 1999. Stuart is a 35-year member and past board member of NMSU Aggie Sports Association and served on the University’s Hall of Fame Selection Committee. In 1998 Stuart was appointed to the Citizens Bank Board of Councilors.
“In March 1944, while a freshman at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, Stuart enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces and served as an electrical technician on the C-46 Commando, a twin-engine military transport, in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II. Sgt. Meerscheidt was honorably discharged in July 1946, and used his G.I. Bill benefits to earn a bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering at New Mexico A&M and a master's degree in engineering at Utah State University… Stuart, who played varsity basketball at New Mexico A&M from 1947 to 1949, and Betsy were lifelong Aggie fans and supporters, and were fixtures at hundreds of Aggie basketball, football and baseball games for more than a half century. Betsy could usually be seen waving her Aggie flag and a red pair of bloomers at nearly every Aggie game. Besides being longtime donors to Aggie athletics, the couple sponsored the hydrotherapy pool in the Stan Fulton Center at Aggie Memorial Stadium in 2008, and established the Stuart and Betsy Meerscheidt Athletic Training Education Program Endowed Scholarship Fund for NMSU athletics students. More recently, they established the Stuart and Betty Meerscheidt Family Rentfrow Fund in the NMSU Department of Kinesiology and Dance. Stuart was inducted into the NMSU Athletic Hall of Fame on March 7, 2015. While raising his daughters, Stuart raced mini-stock cars at Mesilla Valley Speedway and tunnel-hull boats throughout the Southwest, enlisting his girls as his pit crew. Racing was always a family affair with the Meerscheidts, as were fishing trips to Mexico, weekends at Elephant Butte Lake, elk hunting in the Gila Wilderness and many other adventures. He was active with the Las Cruces chapter of China-Burma-India veterans and other veterans organizations.”
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