Frances Dudley Meyer

Frances Dudley Meyer died peacefully at Candler Hospital on Tuesday evening, June 29, 2004. Mrs. Meyer, the first child of Charles Bondurant Dudley and the late Rita O'Quinn Dudley, was born in Greenville, South Carolina on July 20, 1946. She attended the University of Georgia, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi. She graduated in 1968 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design. In 1979 Mrs. Meyer and her husband, Richard Meyer, III, founded Frances Meyer, Inc., a manufacturing company they owned and operated for nineteen years. Mrs. Meyer was active in many Savannah organizations. She served on the following boards: Owens Thomas House Committee, Chatham Commerce Club, Savannah Economic Development Authority, Nations Bank Advisory Board, Savannah-Chatham Historic Sites and Monuments Commission, Lucas Theatre Board, City Market Art Center, and Historic Savannah Foundation Licensing Committee. In 1985 she helped start the Women Bus iness Owners of Savannah Group. Mrs. Meyer was a member of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia. Mrs. Meyer is survived by her father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bondurant Dudley; three siblings and their spouses, Mr. and Mrs. John Dodson, Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell Holly, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Givahn Dudley; her husband of thirty -six years, Richard Meyer, III; her daughter and son-in-law, Augusta Carter Meyer Wilcox and McClelland Wallace Wilcox; her son, Charles Heyward Meyer; and six nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be held at Greenwich section of Bonaventure Cemetery on Friday, July 2 at 10:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, 1600 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314, or the Andrew Low House, 329 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31401. Savannah Morning News, July 2, 2004 Please sign our Obituary Guestbook at www .savannahnow.com