This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dyer, Cone Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5475 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 26 Sept 2002 Dyer Funeral services for Marie Dyer, 89, were held Monday, Sept. 23, 2002 at 10 a.m. at the Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale with Rev. Ronnie Dyer officiating. Burial followed in the Minerva Cemetery. She died Thursday, Sept. 19, 2002 at the Manor Oaks Nursing Home in Rockdale. Mrs. Dyer, a Rockdale area resident all her life, was born July 11, 1913 in Milam County to Ryan G. Cone and Winnie Elizabeth Dyer. She and Boyce Wilburn Dyer (deceased) were married Nov. 19, 1934 at the First Baptist Church in Cameron. Mrs. Dyer, a housewife, was an active member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, teaching Sunday School and participating in various other church ministries. She was a 1932 graduate of Rockdale High School and loved to sing and all things with nature and enjoyed visiting with her family. Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, Aug. 21, 1961; infant son, Raymond Dyer; infant granddaughter, Kimberly Dyer; brothers, William Thomas Cone, Bernard Ray Cone and Henry F. Cone. Surviving are: Son, Wilburn Dyer and wife Carol of Rockdale; daughter, Shirley Caffey and husband Wayne of Rockdale; four brothers, Willard Cone of Minerva, Roger B. Cone of Temple, Conway Cone of Minerva and Emmitt Lee Cone of Waco; sister, Lucille Sutton of LaBelle, FL; five grandchildren, Bradley Dyer, Jaime Dyer, Pattie Schneebeli, Tammy Cass and Billy Caffey; five great-grandchildren, Matthew and Nathan Cass, Jessica and Amanda Schneebeli and Joshua Caffey. Pallbearers were Billy Caffey, Bradley Dyer, Mark Cass, Earl Wayne Schneebeli, Gary Cone and Roger Dale Cone. Honorary pallbearers were David Betchan, Matthew Cass, Nathan Cass and Joshua Caffey