Myrna Clarice Meyers was born the day after Christmas of 1938 in Natchez, Miss., to her loving parents Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Myers. Or so we thought. Her birth certificate reads Clara Myrna Myers, discovered much to the surprise of all just this week. Hers was to be a life of many names. As the baby in a family of eight children, Myrna was carried around in an old peach crate, her mother told by her siblings, “look, Momma, we brought you some peaches.” And Myrna became Peaches.
Along the way, as peach crates were traded for bobby sox, Peaches was shortened to Pete. Pete’s perfectly formed ankles and lower limbs caught the eye of a young C.J. Remore one day in high school and a love story spanning seventy plus years began. After a series of dates, financed by Mr. Myers to the sum of five dollars and the loan of the car (and the daughter) each, Pete got a new name the day after her eighteenth birthday in 1956 – Mrs. Remore.
As is the natural order of things, the now Mrs. Remore added a new name to her list. With the birth and passing of her first-born son, Clarence Joseph Remore, III, who was swiftly followed by five daughters (each as different from each other as colors of the rainbow but each also loved exactly as they singularly needed to be loved), Mrs. Remore became Momma.
As daughters, numbered one through five, grew up and their own babies followed Momma got another new name. MawMaw (with the notable exception of the oldest grandson, known to some as Jer Jer or little Jarmy, who she raised as a son. To him she was, simply, Mom.) The children of those grandchildren followed, and even the children of those grandchildren’s children. Mr. Remore has been known to inquire whether their number now constitutes a horde or a multitude.
Through all the names and years Myrna/Peaches/Pete/Mrs. Remore built a family within which she was the beating heart. She rocked and patted every baby, counseled every heart, and fed a great many Nilla wafers spread with cream cheese (but only one at a time and you had to get back in line and come through again for another.)
She built other names as needed. Cake decorator because, having five daughters, it was going to be cheaper to make their wedding cakes than to have them made. Waitress, a fixture at Boyett’s for years. She added seamstress when she fibbed to get a job in a garment factory at sixteen. Besides making countless school dresses, Easter dresses, prom dresses, and even wedding dresses over the years she also sewed hundreds of angel gowns for the babies born still at Texas Women’s Hospital as well as hundreds of garments for Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child.
She also built a home. Not just in the metaphorical sense. She built a home with her own two hands from the bottom to the top to the spoon handles on the kitchen cabinets.
She also built a life in Christ. She was Sister or Ms. Pete to countless people in each of her church homes through the years. She served on any committee that had need of her, with a special gift for the kitchen and flowers. Even as she lay in the hospital recently, often, her thoughts turned to the needs of her church. From her sickbed her servant’s heart was concerned more with chairs for the fellowship hall and funeral favors for a recently passed church member than her own bodily needs.
Of the many names she had through all her years one particularly shines at her passing. Proverbs 31:28 says, “Her children rise up and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her.” She blessed us and we – all who knew her – rise up and call her blessed.
Myrna Clarice Meyers was born Dec. 26, 1938, in Natchez, Miss., and married Clarence Joseph Remore, Jr., on Dec. 27, 1956.
She was preceded in death by her parents Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Myers, parents-in-law Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Remore, first-born son Clarence Joseph Remore III, first-born daughter Claire Vivian Shears, grandchildren Brendan Cole Dunnam and Krystal Dawn McCullough, siblings Edward Myers, Norbeth Myers, Margie Davis Wright, Jerry Polk, Ernestine Carter, W.H. Meyers, Jr., and Roger Clair Meyers, and son-in-law Jeff Jackson.
She is survived by her husband of 69 years, Clarence Joseph Remore, Jr., daughters #2 Jo Margaret “Josie” Scruggs and husband Dan, #3 Susan “Susie” Jackson, #4 Shari “Kathy” Morie and husband Jeff, #4 Laura “Lalee” Martin and husband Loyd, Grandson raised as a son Michael “Jeremy” Remore and wife Wendy, twelve grandchildren, twenty five great-grandchildren, one honorary great-grandson Reggie, one great-great-granddaughter, and future doctor, Brynlee Moore, numerous extended family and countless friends.
Myrna Clarice “Peaches” “Pete” Remore will be laid to rest in Squier Cemetery on Saturday, June 20, 2026 beside her eldest daughter Claire Vivian Shears following services at New Hope Baptist Church in Cleveland, Texas.
All arrangements to be handled under the trusted care of Neal Funeral Home.