Longtime Meeker native Evelyn Adeline Metzger was called home on New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, 2015. She was 102 years old.
Mrs. Metzger was born Evelyn Burner to her parents, Effie and Claude Burner, on April 20, 1913, in Lodge Pole, Neb. Effie moved her five children to Meeker from Wyoming in a covered wagon after their father’s death of pneumonia when Evelyn was just 4 years old.
Her mother instilled a…