Professionally, Mr. Dyer was a salesman with the Colonial Baking Company until his retirement. In his spare time, he was a published writer of shaped-note gospel music. In years past, he sang with a gospel quartet. Most recently, he sang with the choir from the Mount Juliet Senior Center taking music to area nursing homes each week.
Mr. Dyer has been a member of the Masons for seventy-five years. A man of many interests, he earned his private pilot’s license in his fifties. He was a Sunday School teacher for more than thirty years at the Gateway Missionary Baptist Church in Donelson, where he was a charter member. He was the last living member of the charter members of that church fellowship.
Mr. Dyer will be remembered as a kind-hearted gentleman. At the time of her passing, he had been married to his wife, Elizabeth, just one week prior to their seventy-first wedding anniversary. He was a loving, giving father. He loved well, was well-loved, and will be greatly missed.
Mr. Dyer is predeceased by his father, William Arnett Dyer; his mother, Sallie (Gregory) Dyer; two sisters and a brother. He is survived by his daughters Sherrie Wincek (Ron) and Barbara Davis; grandson, Keith Dickey (Tammy); granddaughter, Kelly Kavanagh (Mike); great granddaughter, Kelsi Estes (Chevy); and great grandson, Jared Dickey; sister Revayne Furniss and brother Colin (Jean) Dyer.
There will be a Gathering of Family & Friends to honor Mr. Dyer on Wednesday, September 20, from 4pm – 8pm, and Thursday, September 21, from 10am – 12pm, at the Hermitage Funeral Home. Following the visitation on Thursday, there will be a Celebration of Life at 12pm in the Tulip Grove Room of the funeral home with Bro. Phillip Church officiating. Following the service, Mr. Dyer will be laid to rest next to his wife in the Garden of Everlasting Life at Hermitage Memorial Gardens.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared with the Dyer family at HermitageFH.com.
