Elaine Meyer

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Elaine Meyer (nee Melchiorre) age 99 of New Bern, North Carolina. She was one of 12 brothers and sisters. Born December 3, 1924 in Hackensack, NJ. Died March 27, 2024. Her husband George predeceased her in 2014. Loving mother of Nancy Nannola and her husband Patrick, Patti Ann Holland and her husband Leo. Devoted grandmother to William Frost Jr. and Dayton Frost. She also leaves behind her younger brother Ronald Melchiorre and his wife Sidney from Philadelphia, as well as many nieces and nephews.

In Elaine's early years she was an avid bowler with her brother and sisters in Hackensack where she grew up. She was the first woman to bowl on TV and she was featured on a Wheaties cereal box. Elaine raised her family in Westwood, NJ where she enjoyed cooking and putting out great meals. She also enjoyed spending her summers at her vacation home at the Jersey Shore.

After her husband, George, died in 2014 she moved to New Bern, North Carolina. She lived in her own little house across the street from her daughter Patti Ann. Elaine enjoyed playing word games, playing corn hole, sitting in her backyard glider with her evening vodka and seltzer watching her blue birds and waiting for her new fig tree to produce its first fig of the year.

Elaine died peacefully in her kitchen chair after her morning cup of tea.

The family will receive guests at Becker Funeral Home, 219 Kinderkamack Road, Westwood, NJ on Monday, April 8, from 2 to 5 p.m. Service at Becker Funeral Home on Tuesday, April 9, followed by interment at Westwood Cemetery.