JoAnn Meyers

JoAnn Meyers, 91, of Manchester, New Hampshire, died on Monday, April 28, 2025 after a long illness. JoAnn was born on August 28, 1933 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, the daughter of the late Saul and Bertha (Rubin) Stone and moved to Manchester in 1938.

She graduated from Manchester Central High School and attended the University of New Hampshire, St. Anselm College and New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University), from which she graduated. She lived in Goffstown from 1954 to early 2025.

Throughout her life, she was engaged in politics and in her community. She served as an elected member of the Goffstown, N.H School Board in the mid-1960’s. She worked as a field coordinator in New Hampshire for the 1964 Presidential campaign of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and went on to serve as Co-Chair of the New Hampshire Young Republicans during the 1968 Presidential campaign. Her political affiliations evolved over time, but she continued to work as a volunteer on numerous Democratic presidential and congressional campaigns well into her 80’s. In 2008, she proudly introduced Barak Obama at a New Hampshire campaign rally.

In the 1970’s, she was a caseworker at the NH Department of Employment Security and from the early 1980’s to the early 2000’s, JoAnn worked in the marketing departments of several publishing companies in New Hampshire and in Boston, Mass.

JoAnn was a lifelong member of Temple Adath Yeshurun in Manchester and a long-term member of its Board of Directors. She was chairman of the Temple’s Social Action, Ritual, Membership and Annual Food Drive Committees. She also was active in the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire. In 2011, she received a Shem Tov award from the Federation in recognition of her years of service.

She was passionate about classical music, having been exposed early in her life to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where her uncle, George Zazofsky, served as the Assistant Concertmaster and First Violinist in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Opera, jazz, travel, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of New Hampshire occupied her time in later years.

Most of all, she was passionate about her two grandchildren, Ahvni (Meyers) Gagnon of Concord, New Hampshire and Hallie Meyers of Houston, Texas.

She was pre-deceased by her husband, Milton. Family members include her two sons, Jeffrey Meyers (Amy Ignatius) of Concord and Michael Meyers (Whitney Doherty) of Brooklyn, NY; three sisters, Frances Goldberg (Michael Goldberg) of Boston, MA., Janet Silver of Washington, D.C. and Marsha Girouard (Charles Young) of Naples, Fl., and many nephews and nieces.

Special thanks to Corin Alves and Granite VNA for their loving and compassionate care.

Services: Burial at the Manchester Hebrew Cemetery will be private. Memorial observance will be held Sunday, May 4, 2025 at Temple Adath Yeshurun, 152 Prospect Street, corner of Beech Street, in Manchester from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. followed by Kaddish.

For online condolences, please visit www.LambertFuneralHome.com.