The Reverend Ernest F. G. MeyerE.F.G. Meyer was born on February 22, 1894 in northern New Jersey. Many years later while a college student his parents told him that he was so small at birth he was swaddled into a shoe box for warmth and a promise made that if he lived his life would be dedicated to Christian service. Live he did. And the pledge was redeemed: at the time of his death on August 29, 1974 in Clark Fork, Idaho at the age of 80 years, he had been preaching the gospel almost continuously for over 60 years.
His early childhood was spent in upper New York State where, at the age of 14 he organized his first Sunday School. After college, he began a long career of missionary work, coming west in 1919, first to the Spokane - Coeur d'Alene area and subsequently to the Okanogan Valley and its environs. Fourteen years (1933) later he estimated that he had traveled about 1,500 miles in these areas going either afoot or on horseback.
In 1951 he arrived in Clark Fork, Idaho to serve an area forty miles long from Hope, Idaho to Noxon, Montana. He organized a Lutheran congregation in 1955 at Clark Fork; concurrently he conducted services for many years in nearby Hope.
In 1969 he became interim pastor in Orofino, Kamiah and Horseshoe Bend, Idaho. By October 1971 he was back in Clark Fork where he served until his death.
Pioneer, activist, non-conformer, "maverick' ruggedly individualistic long before the term was coined, earthy in speech and direct in inter-personal relationships, above all he was staunchly and steadfastly faithful to his Lord and Saviour. By that faith he lived and preached. In that faith he died.
WALDEMAR G. HINTZ
from: Minutes of the Fourteenth Annual Convention; Pacific Northwest Synod; LCA
