Journalist, author Meyer was ‘woman ahead of her time’

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WINNIPEG – Winnipeg journalist and author Joyce Meyer died on the weekend. She was 83.

Meyer, the food writer with the Winnipeg Tribune in the 1950s, was known as a woman who lived life on her own terms.

“She was a real go-getter,” said her friend Rita Kurtz. “She was a woman ahead of her time. She was a survivor of those days.”

Meyer died at the Victoria General Hospital on Saturday as the result of a fall, Kurtz said.

In 1983, Meyer published a memoir, Ricordi, of the 11 years she spent in Italy.

Meyer had gone to Italy on a summer vacation in 1960. She ended up staying 11 years, working for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.

Back in Winnipeg after having spent time in Toronto and Vancouver, she was active with the Prisoners of Conscience arm of Amnesty International, Kurtz said.

She also a wrote co-wrote a history of the Winnipeg Press Club, Torch on the Prairies, with fellow ex-Tribber Marjorie Earle.

A career woman who never married, Meyer is survived by a brother, Art, in Calgary.

A celebration of Meyer’s life is being planned for the Press Club, Kurtz says.

Another Trib journalist who published a memoir in his retirement, Jan Kamienski, died in late March.