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Stuart Paul MEERSCHEIDT

Stuart Paul MEERSCHEIDT

Male 1926 - 2017  (91 years)

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  • Name Stuart Paul MEERSCHEIDT 
    Birth 3 Apr 1926  Nogales, Santa Cruz, Arizona, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • at 9:10 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital
    Gender Male 
    Death 2 Jun 2017  Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Masonic Cemetery, Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Dec 1976, Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Mother Esther Irene STUART,   b. 12 Jan 1896, Crawford, Dawes, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 May 1985, Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Marriage 30 Jun 1920  Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • by the Rev. T. L. Lallance at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church
    Family ID F6833  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Betty Jean Hall LOOMIS,   b. 8 Sep 1932, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Aug 2004, Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 19 Nov 1951  Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • in St. Paul’s Methodist Church by Rev. A. C. Douglas
    Children 
    +1. Living
     2. Living
    Family ID F2097  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2014 

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    Stuart Paul Meerscheidt

  • 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.”