MEADE – Leonard H. Meierdierks, age 84, died Saturday morning, April 5, 2008, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center, Meade, Kansas.

He was born February 18, 1924, at Meade, Kansas, the son of Henry Gerd and Christina Katherina (Brinckman) Meierdierks. As a young boy he attended the Meade school system, graduating from Meade High School. Upon his graduation, he began working for Brown's Furniture Store for eleven years before he began his farming and ranching career with his parents on the family farm south of Meade.

He was a member of Saint John Lutheran Church, Meade, and Thrivent. Leonard enjoyed traveling, having been to all fifty states and several countries overseas; collecting match covers and key chains; repairing bicycles and toys for Toys for Tots; and installing pictures for the church.

He is survived by:

A sister, Loraine Cordes and husband, John of Meade, Kansas

Two nephews, Terry Cordes and wife, Cheree of Meade, Kansas
Morris Cordes and wife, Sharon of Sugar Land, Texas

A niece, Joyce Schultz and husband, Ted of Hutchinson, Kansas

Four great-nephews Three great-nieces

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 7, 2008, at Saint John Lutheran Church, Meade, with the Reverend Lynn E. Spencer presiding. Friends may call from 1:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Sunday, at Fidler-Orme-Bachman Mortuary, Meade. Interment will be in the Graceland Cemetery.

The family would welcome memorials to Windows to the World or Saint John Lutheran Church Building Fund in care of the mortuary.