Lorraine Holleman Meyers' Obituary
At 99 years young, Lorraine Holleman Meyers, who had effortlessly displayed and selflessly graced her family and friends with ample love, gentleness, beauty, and dignity to last their lifetimes, left this world on March 19, 2025, to be with her Lord Jesus where that Grace, Love, Gentleness, Beauty, and Dignity is in abundant supply.
Lorraine was born on September 9, 1925, in New Orleans to Albert Elliott Holleman and Agnes Montfort Blackman Holleman. After graduating from Mamaroneck High School in Mamaroneck, NY, and while attending L.S.U., Lorraine met a young Marine who was studying at the L.S.U Law Center after serving in the Pacific in WWII, Bill Meyers. The couple was married in 1948 while Bill was in his senior year.
Family legend has it that Bill’s eagerness to marry Lorraine was due, in part, to the prospect of receiving an additional $32 per month for married veterans attending school on the GI bill. Such a legend is unfounded because, in reality, Bill was smart enough to realize what a prize he had in the beautiful Lorraine, and if there is one attribute that Meyers men have, it is that they always marry up with Bill being the prime example.
Lorraine was the perfect complement to Bill, and the two served as wonderful examples for their children and grandchildren. All six of her children played tournament tennis, and she regularly and without complaint, drove her kids and other budding young New Orleans tennis players around the country to compete in various regional and national junior contests. Accordingly, she also served as their main supporter and consoler-in-chief.
Despite having no tennis experience, she nevertheless proceeded to dutifully discharge her responsibilities by making sure all children brought their sweatbands to the matches and reminding them to “keep your eye on the ball.” After enduring the travails of watching hundreds of junior and collegiate tennis matches over many years, she finally picked up tennis herself in her 50s and enjoyed it immensely.
She also recognized early on the futility of keeping the dirt from the clay courts at the New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club from being tracked into her home by not only her kids, but by the incessant parade of other out-of-town tennis aspirants being temporarily “housed” at the Jefferson Avenue home, not to mention the constant upkeep necessitated by the family’s beloved slobbering English Bulldogs.
Lorraine was a gourmet cook, and Bill and the six children were the beneficiaries of this talent for every meal, seven days a week, including the LSU football tailgating feasts she faithfully prepared. She was also an extraordinary hostess whether the event was a formal affair for friends or for a gaggle of junior tennis players. She made sure the Meyers house was a Home and that all were welcome. The Home she created was filled with laughter, lots of horseplay, and rambunctiousness. She loved her husband and children’s easy humor. She was able to enjoy her children’s internecine banter until the very end.
She was erudite and a voracious reader and could more than hold her own against the many lawyers in her family. She greatly encouraged each of her children in their many endeavors and various careers in medicine, the law, and art and design.
Lorraine was a member of the Orleans Club, the Junior League of New Orleans, the New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club, and served as a member of the board of the Odyssey House and The New Orleans Food Bank.
After Bill passed away in 2013, Lorraine resided at Christwood in Covington, La. and spent several wonderful years there where she cultivated numerous and blessed friendships with the residents and staff.
We would like to thank the staff at Christwood and her "special” companions, Anieth and Leona (her ‘bebe’) as well as her Visiting Angels, especially Sonia and Delanie. And to Emily, her Assisted Living Nurse who was an especially attentive and caring friend and healer.
She is survived by her six children, and their spouses and children: Dr. William M. Meyers, Jr. and his wife, Melissa Day Meyers, of New Orleans; Meg Meyers Smith, her husband, Michael, of Wimberley, Texas, and their children, Taylor and Walker; Mark B. Meyers and his wife, Susan Hopkins Meyers, of Houston, and their children, Brent, Holly, and Anna; Andrew H. Meyers, and his wife, Erin McKay Meyers, of Lafayette, and their children, Kathleen, Andrew, Jr., William, and Matthew; Mary Meyers Howard and her husband, Michael, of Brooklyn, NY, and their daughter, Mimi; and John Cullen Meyers, and his wife, Susan Worrel Meyers, of Covington, and their daughter, Emily. She is also survived by nineteen great grandchildren as well as numerous nieces and nephews whom she loved very much.
A Memorial service will be held on April 12, 2025, 2-4pm in the Garden Room at Christwood Retirement Community, 100 Christwood Blvd. Covington, La.
In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made in memory of Lorraine Meyers to the “LSU Law Center - William M. Meyers Endowed Scholarship” and addressed to LSU Foundation, 3796 Nicholson Drive, Baton Rouge, LA. 70802.
E.J. Fielding Funeral Home has been entrusted with funeral arrangements. Please sign the online guestbook at www.ejfieldingfh.com.
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