July 6, 1931 – October 16, 2026

Jacqueline Malinda (Neher) Meinershagen, 95, of Higginsville, Missouri, passed away on Friday, October 16, 2026, at LYBL Residential Care in Marshall.

She was born Monday, July 6, 1931, to the late John Benjamin Neher and the late Hilda Katherine (Knollenberg) Neher in a little farmhouse southwest of Mayview, Missouri. She first attended the Wheatley oneroom schoolhouse. In 1941, she and her family moved to a farm on the east side of Mayview, where she attended the Jennings and Douthit one-room schoolhouses before graduating from Higginsville High School in 1949. She married Wilbur Edwin Meinershagen October 29, 1949 at the Mayview Evangelical and Reformed Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Hilda Neher; her husband, Wilbur Meinershagen; one son, Timothy Meiner; two brothers, John Benjamin Neher II and Donald Neher; and two sisters, Leuita Mathiowetz, Aileen Link, and one granddaughter, Carmen Meiner.

Surviving are one son, Terre (Jennie) Meinershagen of Missoula, Montana; two daughters, Annette (Kenton) Dittmer of Higginsville, Missouri and Tamara Whitfield of Weldon Spring, Missouri; eight grandchildren, Carla Meinershagen, Timmy Meinershagen, Riley (Erin) Meinershagen, Clara Meinershagen, Drew (Allison) Dittmer, Danya (Andrew) Blaquiere, Kate (Nate) Jones, Kristen (Justin) Nepute, and eleven great grandchildren.

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