Betty Jeanne Josephs Meyer
24 December 1920 - 12 November 2023
Daughter
Wife
Mother
Grandmother
Great Grandmother
Great-Great Grandmother
Betty Jeanne Josephs Meyer, born 24 December 1920 in Oakland, California. She lived in Oakland and Illinois with her parents, Howard and Thelma Josephs, eventually settling down in San Francisco.
She met Walter J. Meyer, Jr. while she was employed as a secretary at Fireman’s Fund insurance company, and they started dating.
Walt was sent to Texas as an Aviation Cadet of the US Army Air Corps, and she traveled there to see if their relationship “would work.” In the end, they fell in love and on 12 April 1944 they were married in Frederick, OK, and he went off to war. As a pilot in the US Air Force, he traveled extensively, and they moved several times over the first 17 years of their marriage.
In January 1945 they had their first son, Karl, followed over the next 19 years by Ken, Karen, Kerry, Keith, Barbara, Cathy, and Don.
While Walt flew planes to and from numerous places, Betty became a housewife which included moving their brood from California to Hawaii, Massachusetts, Kansas, and back to California again! Though she wore the moniker “housewife” that didn’t mean she just cleaned and did laundry by any means. She transported her kids back and forth between school, sports practices, sporting events, swimming, dance classes and performances. She was a member of the Officers' Wives Club at whatever Base they were stationed, and when they finally settled in the San Bernardino area, she also volunteered at Norton AFB's Thrift Shop. Even after the Base closed, she remained close to her fellow wives, meeting for lunch almost every month through the years.
She was a proficient seamstress, even making exceptional clothes for her daughters’ Barbie dolls and creating needlepoint pillows and keepsakes. Her favorite activity through it all was dancing. Walt passed in 2002 after 58 years of marriage, and several years later she commented that she missed her dance partner.
She was the lady of the house and even a few weeks before she passed, she was still getting her hair and nails done!!
Once Walt retired, they never tired of traveling, across the States for various conventions, back and forth between San Bernardino and the San Francisco area to see both sides of their families and up to Canada to visit Walt’s sister.
But once nearly all the kids were grown and out of the house, they traveled even more with trips from San Diego all through California, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas then onto Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Hong Kong, Quebec, Montreal, Taiwan, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Ireland and more…
Betty had many friends and made friends easily. Having taken many cruises, she would always have someone new to put on her Christmas list and kept in touch over the years.
She leaves behind her 5 surviving children; Karl Meyer (Craig McCartney) of Dallas, Texas, Ken Meyer (Barbi) of Chula Vista, CA, Barbara McMurrich of Highland, CA, Cathy Meyer of Los Angeles, CA, and Don Meyer (Terri) of Banning, CA; 9 grandchildren; 22 great grandchildren and one great-great grandson.
She will be sorely missed, but we celebrate her life, all 102+ years— well lived!
A visitation for Betty will be held Monday, December 4, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Cypress Chapel, 24145 Barton Road, Loma Linda, CA 92354. A funeral service will occur Monday, December 4, 2023 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, 24145 Barton Road, Loma Linda, CA 92354. A committal service will occur Monday, December 4, 2023 from 2:15 PM to 2:45 PM at Riverside National Cemetery, 22495 Van Buren Blvd, Riverside, CA 92518.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.montecitomemorialparkandmortuary.com for the Meyer family.
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