Graveside funeral services for Jerry Byerly, 63 of Brookeland, will be 11:00am Monday, December 1, 2008 at Ebenezer Cemetery.

He died November 30, 2008 at Christus Jasper Memorial Hospital in Jasper. Born in Arkansas but raised in Texas, Jerry was a long time Jasper resident and member of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Beginning as a welder, he became a longtime pipefitter.

Survivors include son Dallas Byerly and daughter Samantha Doty, both of Kansas; sister Charlotte Lowe & husband John of Brookeland; and niece Tami Whitehead of Beaumont.