Meredith Hartnagle Carpe died peacefully in her sleep at her family’s home in Greenville, Ohio, on Jan. 3, after a three-year battle with breast cancer. She was 39.
Meredith is survived by her husband, Ryan Carpe, 38, of Yellow Springs; her children, Naomi, 7, and Havah, 4; her parents, Terry and Becky Hartnagle, of Greenville, Ohio; and sisters, Emily Stall, of Wyoming, Ohio, and Rachel Williams, of Anderson, Ohio.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Mike and Jean Louise Thieme and Ivan and Rita Hartnagle.
Meredith was born on Aug. 21, 1981, in Greenville. She graduated from Ohio University with an undergraduate degree in liberal arts, specializing in French, and from the University of Cincinnati with a master’s degree in social work, specializing in gerontology. After college, she taught English in France for two years while traveling abroad and exploring much of Europe.