Oklahoma City fashion icon dies

Meyers served on the board of Ballet Oklahoma and Children’s Medical Research Institute and was the Redlands Council of Girl Scouts’ Woman of the Year in 1992, as well as The Journal Record’s Corporate Woman of the Year in 1986. She received the Red Rose Award for her support of the Junior Hospitality Club.

“She was always right there to say, ‘Yes, I’ll help,’” friend Ann Alspaugh said. “She was a big promoter of community and charitable things — all of them.”

In past news reports, Meyers attributed much of her success to living the Golden Rule and heeding the advice of and examples set by her parents and grandparents. Her father always told her: “There’s nothing you can’t do,” she said. Her grandmother owned a small gift shop in Los Angeles, where Meyers said she gained her keen business sense.

Meyers’ survivors include five children: A.G. Meyers and Chris Meyers, of Oklahoma City; Walker Wilson, of Houston; Ricki Caudill, of Foreman, Ark.; and Linda Duffy Fitzgerald, of Malakoff, Texas.

Out of respect for their mother, the family isn’t sharing her birth date, A.G. Meyers said.

“She never shared her age, even with her doctors,” he said.

CONTRIBUTING: Special Correspondent Linda Miller