Lois Betty Meyer, 76, a former IRS field auditor, died Sunday, May 19, of injuries suffered in a fire at her home. She was a lifelong Chicagoan and attended the University of Illinois for two years during World War II. She and her husband, Clarence, married in 1946. Mrs. Meyer was raised to believe “you have a brain–use it,” according to her daughter, Roberta Mitchell. So Mrs. Meyer started going to night classes when her daughter was 10. She kept going, earning a master’s of business administration from Roosevelt University. She took a job with the IRS during the 1970s auditing businesses. She was instrumental in founding a local chapter of the National Treasury Employees Union. Mrs. Meyer quit the IRS in 1980 to become an accountant at her husband’s wholesale drafting-supply company. She had also become politically active. Mrs. Meyer joined a group where she learned about the pressures of overpopulation. That experience led her to join the Nature Conservancy. Mrs. Meyer and her husband, Clarence, retired in the early 1990s; he died in 1992. . Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Friday in Donnellan Funeral Home, 10525 S. Western Ave., Chicago. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the funeral home.
