Jen Myers Cause of Death: Longtime Y98 morning host & music director, Jen Myers dies following battle with cancer

Jen Myers, a longtime radio personality, lost her fight with breast cancer after eight years. She was 49 years old.

Born in New York, Myers worked in radio for 26 years. She worked at stations in Buffalo, Des Monies, and finally St. Louis during that period. She presented a morning program there and served as Y98’s music director for 15 years.

For everyone who knew her, Jen was a blessing. She also made the most of every day, especially during her eight-year battle with breast cancer, even though she deserved twice as long on earth as she was granted. Jen, who was born on January 21, 1975, at Sisters of Charity Hospital to Paul and Peggy, was a proud kid of the 1980s, complete with an envious collection of mix tapes, a banana seat bike, and an atrocious hairdo. She was a talented violinist and a mediocre basketball player growing up in Amherst, New York; her lone known basket counting was for the other team.

After attending Windermere Boulevard Elementary School and Amherst Central High School, Jen continued her education in English at Binghamton University. She attended the University of Buffalo to seek a doctorate degree after graduating, but she dropped out after only one semester to join Ryan, her Midwestern match made in heaven, whom she married in 2003.

Jen worked in radio for 26 years, first at stations in Buffalo and Des Moines before settling in her adoptive hometown of St. Louis, where she merged her love of music and words. For 15 years, Jen served as the music director and a popular morning radio show at Y-98. St. Louis awakened up to her voice, and the city as a whole fell in love with her openness and intimate tales of infertility, parenthood, and her battle with cancer. She made everyone feel like a friend.

Jen proudly and loudly raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for causes she cared about, such as Pink Ribbon Good, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Pedal the Cause, and the Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation, by using her voice, platform, and, on many occasions, an energy reserve she shouldn’t have had. Jen never refused to lend a helpful hand to others.

Her two children, however, are by far her greatest achievement. Finn and Nora were Jen’s everything from the day they were born, and their gentle disposition, sense of humor, and tender hearts are the epitome of their mother. She was able to bear her cancer diagnosis for eight years because of her intense love for them and her unwavering determination to spend every moment of her life with them.