Lois Perry Meng

Lois Perry Meng of Chevy Chase, MD, passed away on February 17, 2000, at Carriage Hill in Bethesda, MD. She was 84 years old. She was the widow of Dr. Ralph H. Meng, deceased, and a former resident of Pear Tree Point Road, Chestertown, MD. Mrs. Meng was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where her father, the Reverend James Perry, was a missionary providing relief efforts with the Y.M.C.A. during World War I. Mrs. Meng attended Wheaton College in Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1937. She married first in 1939 to Dr. S. Shepard Jones, an official with the U.S. Department of State. Her second marriage began in 1966 to Dr. Ralph H. Meng, a psychiatrist in private practice in Bethesda, MD. During the 1950’s, Lois Meng was editor-in-chief of the Foreign Service Journal, in Washington, DC, and later was a science writer with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, MD. In 1961-1962, she was on the staff of President Kennedy at the White House, in connection with the President’s Commission on Mental Retardation, later returning to NIMH. In 1976, Dr. Ralph Meng joined the medical staff at the Togus, Maine VA Hospital, and they lived for 13 years in Camden, ME. In 1989, Dr. and Mrs. Meng moved to Chestertown, MD, and Dr. Meng worked at the Eastern Shore State Mental Health Facility in Chestertown. Dr. Meng passed away in October 1995, and is interred at the Quaker Cemetery outside of Chestertown. Dr. and Mrs. Meng were members of the Chester River Meeting of the religious Society of Friends. She is survived by four children, Samuel Shepard Jones, Jr., of Chevy Chase, MD; David R. Meng of Tuba City, AZ, John N. Meng of Norfolk, VA, and Ann Meng Row of Downey, CA; three stepchildren, Mary Meng Chittick of Long Beach, CA, Ellen Meng Schmidt of Blue Jay, CA, and William L. Meng of Alexandria, VA;13 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Another son, Sherman Perry Jones, passed away in 1982. A memorial service will be held on Friday, February 25, 2000, at 4:30 p.m. at the Chester River Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Chestertown, MD. Memorial Contributions should be made to National Association of the Mentally Ill, 2107 Wilson Blvd., Colonial Place 3, Arlington, VA 22201.