Obituary of Tommie Merchant Dyer of Richland Parish Louisiana
as published in the Richland Beacon News-August 2001
Submitted by for the USGenWeb Archives by Dot Golliher, 09/30/2004



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Tommie Merchant Dyer

Funeral services for Tommie Merchant Dyer, 90, of Archibald, LA were
held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2001, at the Cedar Baptist Church
with the Revs. Keith Stevens and Prentiss Gandy officiating. Burial followed
in the Lynn Cemetery, under the direction of Brown-Holley Funeral Homes
of Rayville.

Mrs. Dyer died July 29, 2001 at the Richardson Medical Center in Rayville. 
She was a member of the Cedar Baptist Church.

Mrs. Dyer was preceded in death by her husband, Travis Chick Dyer; a son,
Fredrick Earle Dyer; a daughter, Dot Dyer Adcock; a brother, Earl Merchant;
her sisters, Emma Merchant Haire and Earnestine Merchant Thompson; and
her parents, Missouri Bradshaw and Oliver Windle Merchant.

Survivors include a son, T. Windle Dyer and his wife, Susan, of New Orleans,
LA; two grandchildren, Harry Clinton Adcock of Trenton, TN and Karen Adcock
Taylor of Halls, TN; her great grandchildren, Preston, Juston, Stone, Brett, 
Freddie and Elisha.

Serving as pallbearers were Sonny Jake Yelverton, Sammy Smith, Lee Booth Jr.,
Jerry Roberts, Stevie Gray and Bob Archibald. Her nephews served as honorary
pallbaearers.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Cedar Baptist Church 
building fund.