Barbara Jean Frye Meyers

She attended Chattanooga Public schools until the eighth grade when she entered Girls Preparatory School. She especially treasured her first two years there when it was located on Palmetto St. and two of the founders, Miss Tommie Duffy and Miss Eula Jarnagan, were still there. In her senior year, she was awarded the Marian Stewart Parker award for scholarship.

Next, she attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville for three years. Each year she was chosen a Volunteer beauty. She was a member of Chi Omega Sorority. When her family moved to Birmingham, AL, she transferred to Birmingham Southern College, graduating with a BA degree in 1953.

In 1954, she returned to Chattanooga when she married Pendell Meyers

Sr. Their forty—one years together were spent mostly on Signal Mtn., a wonderful place to bring up their four children. She was teacher/director of the Wayside Presbyterian Kindergarten in 1963—64. From 1968 to 1973, she taught in the Hamilton County school system. From 1973 to 1993, she managed the Confederama, a diorama depicting the Chattanooga Civil War battles, built by her husband and Lee S. Anderson.

In 1995, She and son Gordon opened a children's store downtown in the Read House called The Children's Hour, offering educational toys and books. Barbara amassed a large collection of children’s books. Eight years later after closing the store, she used her books to read to Second Graders in three public schools.

In 2001 she became associated with her son, Pendell, in his business, Meyers Security Services, she continued there until her death.

She was a member of Valleybrook Presbyterian Church. Her Christian faith was the greatest influence in her life. She is survived by her four children — Karen Davenport, Pende11 Meyers Jr. (Brenda), Ann Sykes (Ralph), and Gordon Meyers; three grandchildren – Neal Crutchfield Jr. (Chattanooga, TN), Courtland Meyers (Kennewick, WA), and Dr. Pendell Meyers III (Charlotte, NC) (Kristen); and four great grandchildren — Sabriel Meyers and Rowan Pendell Meyers (Charlotte, NC), Ayden Michael Ward and Bailey Lister Monterde (Adam) (Chattanooga, TN).

Burial Will be in Forest Hills cemetery — a graveside service at Forest Hills Cemetery at 2 PM on October 21, 2026.

Arrangements are under the care of the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory and Florist, 5401 Highway 153, Hixson. Please share your thoughts and memories at www.chattanooganorthchapel.com