Frances Meaders was born Frances Elizabeth Turnipseed on June 20, 1929. She married Paul McLarin (Larry) Meaders on July 25, 1948 at the Capital View Methodist Church, Atlanta. The Meaders couple grew up in the Capital View/Sylvan Hills area of Atlanta and they lived and raised their four children in the Atlanta area. They moved to Peachtree City in 1972. Larry retired from Delta Airlines in 1987, and passed away on July 23,2020.

Frances Meaders held the office of City Clerk for Peachtree City from May 1973 to January 1995. As the longest-serving person in that office, she worked under four different mayors (Howard Morgan, Herb Frady, Fred Brown, and Robert Lennox). Police chief Haskell Barber and she were the first two City employees.

Frances came to the position of City Clerk with prior experience and worked as a stenographer for the Department of Agriculture even before she is documented as such in the 1950 Federal Census. The Peachtree City Charter, Section 2.14. designates the City Clerk as the custodian of city records.

While serving as City Clerk, Meaders also served the Peachtree City Planning Committee as their clerk for nine years, until 1982. She served as the Peachtree City Director of Administrative Services from 1983 through their meeting of January 3, 1995.

On February 22, 1988, sponsored by Floy Farr, Meaders was inducted into Peachtree City Rotary Club, as its first woman member. She later became the organization’s first female president and served for the 1993-1994 term. Other women followed her as president of the Peachtree City Rotary Club in 2001, 2006, 2013, and beyond. Frances Meaders also served as the Rotary Club’s “Get Out the Vote” Committee Co-Chair, with Debbie Walsh, for the dates of the Election Forums held in this collection. She was also the Rotary District 6900 office manager during this time.

On June, 20, 2024, Frances Meaders’ 95th birthday was celebrated by the Peachtree City Rotary Club, with events at City Hall. The highlight of the celebration was the renaming and the dedication of the Frances Meaders Council Chambers in her honor.