Melania Sophia Meyer

Melania Sophia Meyer was born on October 5, 1933 on the farm in Albin Township, MN to Edward and Mathilda (Seidl) Sellner. She was the 7th of 15 children. She attended school District 33 in Albin Township and District 44 in Leavenworth Township. She attended St. Mary's School until the 8th grade. Melania married Delmar "Mupp" Meyer on November 6, 1953. She worked at Jake's Eat Shop, A.J. Pietrus and Sons and Sleepy Eye Care Center. She volunteered at Divine Providence helping with bingo, funeral lunches, helping at St. Mary's peeling apples and potatoes and Next-tu-Nu. She was a member of the Christian Mother's Society, CCW and St. Mary's Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye. She lived in Sleepy Eye and raised two children, Roxanne and Dean. She liked baking, cooking, canning, babysitting her grandchildren, walking, shoveling snow and raking leaves. She is survived by her children, Roxanne (Leonard) Fassbender, Dean (Darla) Meyer, grandchildren, Jennifer Marti, Brooks (Jodi) Marti, Adam (Lisa) Marti, Jeffrey Meyer and Joe Meyer, great grandchildren, Aletta, Weston and Everly More, Kaden Marti, Justin, Cheyenne and Dustin Marti, Jason Meyer, sisters, Phyllis Westman, Joyce (Gary) Berg, Beatrice (Tom) Koop, brother, Doyle (Patty) Sellner, brother-in-law, Jim Stimpert and sisters-in-law, Helen Sellner and Sandy Sellner. She was preceded in death by her husband, Delmar, parents, great grandaughter, Harleigh Marti, sisters and brothers in law, Millie (Lyle) Baker, Leona (Vernon) Platz, Rita (Christ) Seifert, Patricia (Ray) Seifert, Mary Ann (Marlin) Rodewald, Rosella Stimpert, Delbert Westman, brothers and sisters-in-law, Eddie (Bernice) Sellner, Ray Sellner, Paul Sellner and Larry "Louie" Sellner, mother and father-in-law, Albert and Selma Meyer and brother and sisters-in-law, Robert (Irene) Meyer and Donald (Cathy) Meyer. Visitation 1 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Thursday, August 12, 2021 Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye Chapel 301 - 3rd Ave. S.W. Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, United States 56085 Visitation 2 10:00 am - 11:00 am Friday, August 13, 2021 St. Mary's Catholic Church-Sleepy Eye 636 1st Ave. North Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, United States 56085 Service Information 11:00 am Friday, August 13, 2021 St. Mary's Catholic Church-Sleepy Eye 636 1st Ave. North Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, United States 56085 Interment Information 11:55 am Friday, August 13, 2021 Home Cemetery 700 St. Mary's St. N.E. Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, United States 56085 Reception To be held after the burial in the church social room.