Mary Meacham

A private family ceremony will be held for Mary Elizabeth Goldsworthy Meacham who went to Heaven on Saturday, December 19, 2020, at the age of 85.

Mary was born April 6, 1935 in Paris, Arkansas to James Opie and Ratha M. Goldsworthy. She graduated from Lonoke High School in 1952. On June 8, 1953 she married Roy Leonard Meacham, in Lonoke, Arkansas. They proudly celebrated 64 years of marriage. She moved to Texas at the age of 23 to support her husband’s career at Phillips 66 in Old Ocean. Mary lived a full life as a devoted wife and wonderful mother. She especially cherished her role as MeMaw. She loved to read, sew, cook, garden, travel with her family, play the penny slot machines, and was highly skilled with a fishing pole. But what Mary was most proud of was her family. She spent her life caring for her family that she loved dearly.

Left to cherish her memory are her three daughters, Melissa (Meacham) Lowery and her husband, Mike of Montgomery, TX, Melinda Meacham of Lake Jackson, TX, and Melody (Meacham) Durham of Irving, TX; four grandchildren, Heath Lowery and his wife, Jessica of Hockley, TX, Jamee (Lowery) McClure and her husband, Matthew of Tomball, TX, Dylan Durham and his wife, Emma of Houston, TX, and Macy Durham of Colleyville, TX; and one great-grandson, Levi McClure of Tomball, TX.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Roy L. Meacham; her parents, James and Ratha Goldsworthy; and her brother, James Opie Goldsworthy, Jr.