Julie Myers

Julie Myers is the mother of Eric and Brooke, raising them in Odyssey while her husband, Ernie, serves a prison sentence. Money is tight, and she works hard just to make ends meet. When she first arrived in town with the children, nobody would give her a job. John Whittaker changed that by hiring her on the spot as Christmas help at Whit's End. For a time the family kept Ernie's imprisonment a painful secret, afraid that kindness would vanish once people knew the truth. Julie is a caring but weary parent, and the strain sometimes shows. She once wrongly suspected Eric of theft after catching him with a pile of cash, a lapse he later forgave. When gifts and a letter arrived from Ernie one Christmas, she chose forgiveness and took the children to visit him.