James Robert Pierce

James Robert Pierce, 66, of Dyersburg, died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003, at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center.

He was a retired employee of Dyersburg Fabric Corp.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Tabernacle Baptist Church, where he was a member, with the Rev. Al Seward and the Rev. Louis Hudson III officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Dyersburg. Cosmopolitan Funeral Services will be in charge of arrangements.

The family will receive visitors at noon until 8 p.m. today at the church.

Survivors include two sons, James Lee Pierce and Robert Lee Pierce, both of Dyersburg; three grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Annie Ruth Pierce; and a son, Merit Robert Pierce Pallbearers will be Henry Boykin, W.M. Thomas, J.C. Kirk, Ruben Gary, Johnny Hoard, Bobby Thomas and Alfred Taylor.