Although she likes to travel to other states, for Brenda Meyer the place to stay is here in Rush County. Past travels have taken her to several states to see what the differences are but she always returns to her Hoosier home.

She and her mother Estella Meyer live together in Falmouth. They share their home with a cat called Tabby, and until last February with a Dachshund named Cedric.

“We do miss him,” Brenda said.

The best reason to live in Rush County is the people, according to Meyer.

“We have a lot of friendly people, and helpful. If you need help, they’re there to help you. You go to the big cities and they’re out for the individual,” she said. “I always like it because I help people and they help me. I think that’s why I stay. I really do.”

She has encountered many, many people in her more than 20 years of working at Rushville’s Wal-Mart. She now is Customer Service Manager and spends her time “up front” helping customers with complaints. She works from the Service Desk, resolving problems and reporting to department managers when a consumer requests an item that isn’t available.

“If they want items that we don’t carry I give that to the managers so we can start getting new merchandise,” she said.

This Falmouth resident enjoys scrapbooking and reading.

“I read a lot, mostly mysteries and autobiographies,” she said.

The daughter of the late John H. Meyer, Brenda has one brother, Albert Meyer, who lives in Columbia in Fayette County and one sister, Della Deweese, who lives in Brownsburg.

Brenda is active at Plum Creek Christian Church.

“I help out at church with different things, anything that needs done like dinners or anything the church needs,” she remarked.

She attended Webb School for her elementary years then Rushville Junior High School.

“It was in the old yellow one that’s no longer there,” she said.

A 1970 graduate of Rushville Consolidated High School, she noted that it was a big change from the size of the elementary school to the newly consolidated high school.