- Date Of Birth: April 8, 1929
- Date Of Death: June 5, 2011
- State: Iowa
Jerry Richard Byers was born on April 8, 1929 in Lucas County, Iowa to Clinton Leland and Beulah Maud Richards Byers. He went to his eternal home after a courageous battle with cancer on Sunday, June 5, 2011 at the Hospice of Pella Comfort House at the age of eighty-two.
On June 17, 1951 Jerry was united in marriage with Dora Louise Palmer in Russell, Iowa. They were blessed with five children: Joleen, Joyce, Janice, Martha, and Bruce.
For twenty-four years Jerry worked for HyVee Food Stores in Oskaloosa, Chariton, and Corning, Iowa. Then the family moved to Pella where he was employed as: owner/operator of Gambles Hardware Store, general manager of the Family Recreation Center (Dutch Buffet, Tulip Lanes, and Skating Rink), electrician for Vanden Berg Electric, and Director of Maintenance and Transportation for the Pella Community Schools.
Those left to cherish his memory are his wife of nearly sixty years, Louise of Pella; his children: P. Joleen and Lonnie Lee Gerber of Pella, Joyce A. Mattox of Pella, Janice E. and Jeffery S. Rost of Waverly, Martha R. and Rick A. Kindley of Knoxville, and Bruce A. and Pamela J.Sandry Byers of Noble, Oklahoma; fourteen grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; his brother and wife, J. Lester and Mary Elaine Byers of Sun City West, Arizona; his two sisters: Vira and the late Ed Whitlock of Piney, Tennessee and Bonnie Faye and Ralph Lang of Dallas, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death are his parents: Clinton and Beulah Byers; parents-in-law: Harold and Ruth Palmer all of rural Lucas County.
