Amy Isabel Meighan

Amy Meighan, celebrated equestrienne and water colorist, passed away in her home in Bothwell, Utah on June 6, 2024.

Amy was born to Nathan and Frances Mazer in Philadelphia, PA in March of 1946. An Air Force Brat, Amy grew up around the globe, wherever her father was stationed. Amy was two years old when she accompanied her mother to Japan on the first boatload of military dependents allowed in that country after World War II. She reached school age in Turkey, but her favorite home abroad was in Norway where Nathan was posted to the embassy and Amy first learned to ski. From Norway, the family moved to Bozeman, Montana where Amy acquired her first horse. Horses were a life-long obsession for Amy. She competed at the national level in High School Rodeo, and she trained, rode, and showed registered quarter horses throughout the intermountain west for much of her adult life.

When Colonel Mazer retired from the Air Force, the family moved to Utah. Amy was working as a civilian on Hill Air Force Base where she met William Meighan, then a Major with the 6545th Test Group. Amy and Bill were married in the backyard of Amy’s home in Hooper, Utah in September of 1984. Bill brought two boys, Patrick and Peter, from a previous marriage to the union.

From Utah, Bill was assigned as an Air Force Program Manager at the Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington, where Amy took employment as a Management Assistant with the Air Force Plant Representative Office (AFPRO). Along with their boys, Amy and Bill hauled six horses from Utah to a property they purchased outside Orting, Washington. In 1985, Amy gave birth to their daughter Anne at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Washington.

After a lifetime on the move, Amy and Bill returned to Utah, first living in Roy, then in 2013 moving to a small ranch in Bothwell, where they built and lived in Amy’s 33rd and final home.

Amy leaves behind her sister Harriet, her beloved husband of 39 years, two sons a daughter and their spouses, five grandchildren, and many close friends living all over the world.