Christopher Doyle Meyers

Christopher Doyle Meyers died at home on August 27, 2024, at the age of 83. He was born in New Orleans on April 14, 1941, to the late Adelaide Hull Meyers and Christopher Doyle Meyers, Sr. He was the older brother of Peter Hull Meyers and Timothy Francis Meyers, both deceased. He was the devoted husband of Mary Jourdan Meyers and the wonderful father and father-in-law of Elizabeth Meyers Davis and Karl Davis; Anne Meyers DeVine and Alexander DeVine; Susan Meyers and John David Felt; and Margaret Meyers and Leslie Geddes. He was the proud, doting grandfather of Claudia Davis, partner of Zachary Goldblatt; Jonathan Davis; Stephen Aeoli Davis; Felix DeVine; and Rosemary DeVine.

Chris graduated from Jesuit High School in 1958 and survived three long months in the Jesuit novitiate. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Loyola University in 1962 and his medical degree from LSU Medical School in 1967, after which he completed his medical internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Chris and Mary, who met as classmates at Loyola, married on December 27, 1968.

From 1968 to 1970 Chris was an officer in the United States Public Health Service, serving the Choctaw community in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He returned to New Orleans for a psychiatry residency at Tulane University School of Medicine, and in 1973 commenced a private psychiatry practice that lasted until his death.

He graduated from the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute, now the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center, in 1980, and was a teaching analyst there since 1987. He was a staff physician at Touro Infirmary for many years, serving as the medical director of the inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit from 1989 to 1995.

Chris was extremely intelligent, remembered nearly everything, and was intellectually curious and courageous. He comforted the suffering and listened without judgment. He was a patient teacher. He read and sang to his children and grandchildren. He loved language, music, and the company of family and friends. He created a cherished record of his life through his beautiful photographs. He was a great wit and had a singular, silly sense of humor.

In addition to his wife, children, and grandchildren, he is survived by godchildren, nieces and nephews, cousins, brothers- and sisters-in-law, and dear friends, who all enriched his life.

He promised and strove to linger, but did not, and we will miss him so.

We will remember and celebrate him on Saturday, September 14; both visitation at 11 a.m. and memorial service at 12 p.m. will be held at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70124. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations in honor of Chris Meyers to the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Foundation or Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).