July 28, 1998.... This OBIT was in the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, Alexandria, La..... Edmond Lee Dyess was the son of: J. B. (Jose) Dyess and Sarah Matilda Smith He was the Grandson of: Edmond D. Dyess and Margaret Mathis He was teh Great Grandson of: Thomas D. Dyess and NANCY JENKINS He was the Great Great Grandson of: EDMOND JENKINS and Mary Walker He was the Great Great Great Grandson of: STERLING JENKINS == Edmond L. Dyess Services for the Rev. Edmond L. "Ted" Dyess will be at 10 a.m. Friday in The Pentecostals of Alexandria Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Gardner, under direction of John Kramer & Son. Additional services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Life Challenge United Pentecostal Church, Odessa, Texas, with the Rev. Dan Smelser officiating under direction of Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home, Odessa, Texas. Dyess, 84, of Odessa, Texas, died Monday, July 27, 1998, in his residence. He was a native of Gardner and served in the Civilian Conservation Corp. from 1936 to 1938. He was an evangelist and taught Bible seminars across America. He attended Apostolic Bible Institute of St. Paul, Minn. He was a pastor of churches in Natchitoches, Hornbeck and Ferriday. He built churches in Columbia, Miss., Jackson, Calif., and Alamogordo, N.M. He worked at Western Apostolic Bible College, District Board of California District U.P.C., Apostolic Assembly College in Hayword, Calif., and Christ Temple P.A.W. He was a member of Writers Guild for literature for United Pentecostal Church International. Survivors include his wife, Anna White Dyess of Odessa, Texas; four brothers, Elbert Dyess of Gardner, the Revs. O.C. Dyess and B.G. Dyess, both of Alexandria, and Rufus Dyess of Richmond, Calif.; two sisters, Bertha Marler of Alexandria and Jodie Marler of Hineston. Friends may call from 3-9 p.m. Thursday and from 8:30 a.m. until time of services Friday in the church.