Jan Meyers

A Representative from Kansas; born in Lincoln, Nebr., July 20, 1928; attended public schools in Superior, Nebr., and William Woods College, Fulton, Mo.; B.A., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1951; advertising and public relations assistant for radio station in Omaha and a department store in Lincoln, Nebr., 1951-1954; city councilwoman in Overland Park, Kans., 1967-1972; city council, 1970-1972; Kansas senate, 1972-1984; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1997); chairman, Committee on Small Business (One Hundred Fourth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress. In 1953 married Louis Meyers, who became a Kansas City television station executive. Mr. Meyers, who was known as Dutch, died in 2009. In addition to her daughter, she is survived by her son, Dr. Philip Meyers; her brother, Dr. Donn Crilly; and a granddaughter. Dr. Meyers ran unsuccessfully for a congressional seat in Hawaii in 2000 as a Republican against Representative Neil Abercrombie.