Charles Jordan Meyers

He was born October 25, 1954 in Austin, the first of four children of Judge James Rezia Meyers of Houston and Barbara Jean Jordan Meyers of Livingston. He graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School, The University of Texas @ Austin with a bachelor’s degree in English and South Texas College of Law. After passing the Texas Bar, he worked for the Texas Attorney General’s office in Austin, where he met Holly Knotts Perkins. The two young attorneys married in 1987 and moved to Lufkin, where they practiced law with her father, attorney William Drew Perkins.

Although he always considered himself an “Austin boy,” he engaged in many activities in Lufkin. He was president for two years of the Lufkin High School Boys Soccer Booster Club. He provided legal assistance to the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He coached sports teams of his three sons. And he gave countless pro bono legal work to those without means to pay for it.

Charlie, as he was known, had a strong passion for healthy debates, righteous causes and good times (and especially smoky scotch.) He had a mischievous smile that sparkled with eyes that twinkled as if he knew an inside joke that others didn‘t. He was never short of an opinion and rarely short on words. He was hard-headed yet forgiving. He was a golfer and a yellow-dog Democrat, and he couldn’t understand why everyone else wasn’t. He knew the Houston Astros were rebuilding the right way, from the bottom up.

But, above all, Charlie was a family man, and a terrific one. It was as if his whole life had prepared him to raise three sons and instill them with wisdom. Together, Charlie and Holly have raised a family filled with laughter, love and countless wonderful moments together. He was a terrific father.

He is survived by his wife, Judge Holly Knotts Perkins Meyers; his father, Judge James Rezia Meyers and wife Mary Ann Auler Meyers of Austin; his mother, Barbara Jordan Meyers of Dripping Springs; three sons, Carter Avery Meyers (25) of Houston, Sterling Hardin Meyers (24) of Lufkin, and Miller Jarvis Meyers (21) of Lufkin; two sisters, Anna Katherine Meyers Smith of Austin and Martha Eddings Meyers of Houston; and a brother, James Stephen Meyers of Austin.

A graveside memorial ceremony will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7, 2015 at Tom Walker Cemetery, 5 miles north of Lufkin in Redland on U.S. 59 at the intersection of FM 2021. A celebration will follow at 3:30 p.m. at Restoration Wine Bar, 210 South First Street in Lufkin.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in his name are made to a fund that is buying rings for the members of the 2015 Lufkin Panthers state championship soccer team. Checks can be made to Lufkin Boys Soccer Booster Club -- State Ring” and mailed to First Bank & Trust East Texas, attention Martha Hernandez, P.O. Box 610, Diboll, TX, 75941.

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Services have been placed in the trust of Gipson Funeral Home.