Freddie Jane Meyers
May 4, 1929 – Jan. 12, 2026
This is in loving memory of Freddie Jane Meyers, who passed away Jan. 12, 2026.
Freddie was born May 4, 1929, to Guy and Bess Smoot in the small, rural town of Mammoth Spring, Ark. She was the fifth of 11 children; she had six brothers and four sisters.
At age 18, she left home and began her life adventure, traveling by train to San Francisco, where she worked as a waitress and met her husband-to-be, Frank Eli Meyers, who had just returned home from his service in the Navy during World War II.
They were wed on April 22, 1950 and lived in Northern California, where they raised their three children, Thea, Timothy and Venessa.
The Meyers family moved to Portland in 1968. There Frank passed away, in 1978, and Frankie continued to live in Portland, where she worked as a caregiver in a retirement home.
In 1991 Freddie and life partner Raymond Carter moved to Sweet Home, to be near her children and grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by Ray in 2009.
Freddie continued to live in Sweet Home, always in loving service to others – her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and all who were blessed to know her.
She was the first to dance, to share, to lend a hand, and her farewell was always, truly and sincerely, “Love you more!”
Freddie passed peacefully at the age of 96, surrounded by family and loved ones.
She is survived by her brother Jim, sister Mary of Arkansas, her three children, nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Freddie was a resident at Wiley Creek Memory Care in Sweet Home.
Any donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at www.alz.org.
A celebration of life will be announced.