Nova Jean Mayabb Dyer

The family visitation will be at Bratcher Funeral Home from 1:30 – 3:00 P.M., Sunday, January 4, 2015.

Please join the family and Nova Jean, as she liked to say “attends her home church for the final time”, as funeral services will be held at Parkside Baptist Church at 10:30 A.M., Monday, January 5 with Jerry Coffman and Sam Garrett officiating. Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery in Denison.

Pallbearers will be Wayne Iafelice, Mike Davis, Lee Clayton, Stack Lambert, Cody Rodden and Joe Rodden.

Nova Jean was born Monday, July 27, 1931 in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Claude Mayabb and Cynthia Ann White Mayabb. She grew up in Calera, Oklahoma and married Allen H. Dyer in Dallas, Texas on September 16, 1949.

Nova Jean loved to recall and talk about the times that Allen was in the Air Force. Those twenty-two years were very dear to her, as she would share about the places they were stationed and the people that they meet there. Allen was devoted to his duty as he served our great country, while Jean likewise was devoted to her country, serving as she worked diligently to turn a trailer or base house (some even with bullet holes) into a home, making a home for her husband and children. They were stationed in places such as Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, and Hawaii, having three children along the way, Ricky, Kenny and Carolyn.. In each place they would put down roots, making friendships that would last a life time. She and Allen would join the local Baptist church and serve the Lord wherever the U.S. Air Force planted them. Jean loved the Lord and it showed in her service. She would teach R.A.s, G.A.s, she worked in children’s choir and Sunday School, whatever was needed. Over the years she must have made a river of Kool-Aide and mountain of cookies for Vacation Bible School.

In 1972, Allen retired from the Air Force and they moved to Denison to establish their home. They joined Parkside Baptist Church, where they have been active members for over 40 years, continuing to serve the Lord. As the children grew older and left home, Nova Jean worked outside of the home at the Christian Book Store in Denison, ministering to all who came in contact with her, not just selling books, but spreading the Word of God through the lives that she touched. She loved people and it showed.

Nova Jean’s hobbies were spoiling her grandchildren and she was an avid reader.

She is survived by husband Allen of Denison; son Kenneth Dyer of Oklahoma; daughter Carolyn Walton & husband Jeff of Denison; daughter-in-law Rachel Dyer of Denison; brothers Bill Huskey & wife Loretta of Atoka, Oklahoma, Jim Huskey & wife Phyllis of Calera, Oklahoma, John Huskey of Oklahoma; grandchildren Jeff Walton, Cynthia Walton, Patrick Dyer and Deanna Dyer.

She is preceded in death by her parents, daughter-in-law Terra Dyer and son Richard Allen Dyer.