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By Margaret Leidy Harner from her book One Day at a Time: A Social History of Boyertown, PA
October 9, 2002: A Boyertown man was gunned down by the Washington Sniper, who has been causing havoc in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia areas.
Dean Meyers, a 1967 Boyertown Area High School graduate, was heading home from his job in Virginia and had stopped at a local gas station to fill up the tank of his beloved 1966 Chevrolet Stingray Corvette, He was shot as he pumped gas.
A civil engineer living in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Meyers grew up in Obelisk, and after high school he ended up in Vietnam, where he was seriously wounded in a “search and destroy” mission. He recuperated at the Valley Forge Military Hospital.
Family and friends honored Meyers posthumously at a church in North Coventry and he was buried in Zieglersville.
Patchy rain nearby, with a high of 74 and low of 54 degrees. Patchy rain nearby during the morning, clear for the afternoon and evening, mist overnight.
Can't wait to get ice cream!!!