Irene Ruth (Boriack) Meyer was born to Louis G. and Maria M. “Lena” (Michalk) Boriack in Ponchatoula, Louisiana on December 17, 1936. On May 15, 2022 Irene, at the age of 85 years, 4 months and 29 days fell asleep in Jesus. Visitation will be on Friday, May 20 from 5-8 PM at the Rosewood Funeral Home Chapel, 3939 Pasadena Blvd., Pasadena, TX 77503. The funeral will be on Saturday, May 21 at 1 PM at the Zion Lutheran Church, 5050 E. Sam Houston Pkwy S., Pasadena, TX 77505. There will be a graveside service on Monday, May 23 at 11:00 AM at the Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery, 264 County Rd. 143, Riesel, TX 76682.
Irene was joined in holy matrimony to Earl Martin on January 27, 1955 and graduated from Riesel High School, Riesel, TX as valedictorian of her graduating class of 1955. She raised three children while attending classes at San Jacinto Junior College, where she received an Associates of Arts degree in 1972. She then received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Houston in 1976, graduating summa cum laude. Irene was Distinguished Graduating Senior in the home economics department. She worked as a home economics teacher in the Pasadena school district and later taught English.
She lived nearly two years of married life in Hawaii before moving to Pasadena, Texas where she became active in her church, Zion Lutheran Church.
Irene is survived by her husband Earl Meyer; sons Glenn Meyer and wife Loretta of McAlester, Oklahoma, Rick Meyer of Seabrook, TX and daughter Jeanne Coats and husband Bill of Pasadena TX; grandchildren Josh Meyer, Chris Meyer, Emma Meyer, Molly Meyer, William Coats and wife Kirby, Jonathan Coats, and Collin Coats; and great-grandchildren Madison and Mackenzie Coats.
She predeceased by her parents Louis and Lena Boriack and siblings Norman Boriack, Clarence Boriack, Vernon Boriack, Renata Burkum, Erwin Boriack, Eunice Mobley, and Winfred Boriack. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.