Dora Pearl Myers collection

Dora Pearl Myers was born in McCool, Nebraska, August 3, 1897, to Dr. and Mrs. William A. Myers, the third child in a family of four: Katherine, Jessie, Dora, and Everitt. While her family had Lutheran, Presbyterian and Methodist roots, the family attended the Methodist Church where at thirteen Dora gave her heart to Christ.

She was educated in the public schools of Nebraska. After completing high school, she attended Nebraska Wesleyan University where she received a teaching certificate in elementary education. From 1918 until 1923, she taught in the public school systems in Iowa and Nebraska.

The love of her life at this time, however, was music. As soon as she began to teach school and earn her own living, she began to study piano. She benefited greatly from the Kinscella Method developed by her teacher. After five years of teaching in the school system and studying music, she was invited by the supervisor of music in the public schools of Rochester, New York, who had previously been a supervisor of music in the public schools of Lincoln, Nebraska, to come to Rochester and introduce the Kinscella Method there. Afterward she also taught music in Tampa, Florida, where she moved to be near her father following the death of her mother. So gifted was she that twice she studied music in Europe.

In 1938, her father became ill and moved to Jal, New Mexico, for his health. During a visit to him there, both of them attended a revival at the local Church of God. Dr. Myers was signally blessed during the services, and after a time Miss Myers herself began seeking a closer walk with the Lord. She experienced a crisis conversion, the baptism in the Holy Ghost and a call to missionary work in India.

How she responded to her call and the radical changes it brought to her life are recounted in her autobiographical manuscript, “My Life’s Story.” Between the time of her calling and that of her going to India, she taught Spanish and psychology at Lee College, continued her studies and began a systematic study of God’s Word. She arrived in India in October of 1950 to become principal of Mount Zion Bible School and to teach there, as well. After fourteen years of teaching in India, she returned to Lee College to teach again until her retirement.

She became a woman of great faith that saw her through long years of diligent service in the United States and in India. She was active in various volunteer ministries in the North Cleveland Church of God after her retirement from Lee College. During an early morning prayer meeting in the local church, she stood to give a testimony, clutched her shoulder, and said, “Oh, my shoulder,” and lapsed into unconsciousness from which she did not recover. She passed gently to be with her Lord on Monday, June 20, 1988.