Duane Willard Myers

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DUANE WILLARD MYERS
RICHMOND, VA. \endash Duane Willard Myers, 84, died suddenly on May 1, 2013.
A native of Pennsylvania, he attended Brookville High School, where he starred in baseball, basketball and track.
At 17, he served as a paratrooper in Japan with the occupational forces following World War II.
Afterward, he graduated from Duke University, where he also played baseball. After teaching briefly, he worked for Dan River Mills in Danville, Va., where he met his wife of 54 years, Betsy Garrett. He also played professional baseball in New York and North Carolina for three years. Then he joined BP, where he worked for 34 years, retiring as an executive in 1984.
Duane and Betsy were avid golfers and longtime members of Tippecanoe Country Club in Canfield.
Duane is survived by his children, Elizabeth Myers (Piero Pierandrei), Lynn Myers and Michael Myers (Rebecca); as well as three grandchildren, Maddy and Christopher Myers and Helena Pierandrei; and his sisters, Pat Gerhan (Chuck) and Mary Carolyn Harwick. On Friday, May 3, the family will receive from 2 to 3 p.m., with a memorial service to follow at Bennett Funeral Home, 11020 West Broad St.
Donations may be made in his memory to any youth baseball program or charitable organization of your choice.

Duane married Betsy Lee Garrett, daughter of William Bolyn Garrett Sr. and Bessie Lee Fuqua, on 28 Aug 1954 in Danville, VA. (Betsy Lee Garrett was born on 11 Oct 1932 in Rockingham Co., N.C, died on 19 Mar 2008 in Richmond , VA and was buried on 22 Mar 2008 in Garrett family farm near Madison, N.C.)