Obituary of Rev. James Dyson

Services for Reverend James Charles Dyson, 76, will be at 2:00 pm, Saturday, October 27, in the Overton Missionary Baptist Church, Overton, Texas, with Reverend Russell Uselton officiating. Burial will be in the Salem Cemetery near Overton, Texas under the direction of Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home, Overton. Reverend Dyson died Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in a hospice facility in Longview, Texas. He was born March 4, 1936, in Memphis, Tennessee to the late Reverend Joseph Rex and Carolyn Shaffer Dyson.   Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Emma Jean Ault. Survivors include his wife, Judi Dyson, Overton, Texas; two sons and a daughter-in-law,  James Carson, Memphis, Tennessee, and J. C. 'Shane' and Rebecca Dyson, Overton, Texas; three daughters and sons-in-law, Cindy Dyson and Scott Jolly, Morrilton, Arkansas, Ramona Dyson Avery and Kenneth Avery, Obion, Tennessee, and Vanesa and Duane Stenburg, Forney, Texas; four brothers and sisters-in-law, Kenneth and Mary Dyson, Memphis, Tennessee, David and Jean Dyson, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Edward and Becky Dyson, Lewisville, Texas, and Steve and Linda Dyson, Vale, North Carolina; many grandchildren; 2 great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.