Jerry Dean Lewis

Jerry Dean Lewis, 86, a retired pipeline engineering company manager, passed away on October 14, 2025. Graveside service will be held at 3:00 P.M. Friday, October 17, 2025, at Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery with Rev. Betty Swanson officiating under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home Sterlington Rd. Monroe. Visitation will be from 1:00 P.M. until 2:30 P.M. on Friday, October 17, 2025, at Mulhearn Funeral Home Monroe.

Jerry was born on December 6, 1938, he graduated from Crowville High School in 1956 and attended Northeast Louisiana College. Jerry served eight years in the United States Army Reserve. He spent his professional career working in the pipeline engineering field of the oil and gas industry beginning in 1967, at Ford, Bacon & Davis and retiring in 2003 as Senior Vice President of TI Energy Services, Inc. in Monroe, LA. After being away from the business for three years Jerry returned, working as a Landman for CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Company on what was supposed to be a 3-month work assignment and continued working for 8 years. His career in the pipeline industry gave him the opportunity to make many friendships throughout the United States gaining lifelong friends many of which he maintained contact with after retirement. He was a member of Lea Joyner Memorial Methodist Church and The Missions Sunday School Class.

Jerry was preceded in death by his wife Patsy Cooper Lewis; parents, Oran and Aline Lewis; his sister, Bobbie Hayden; and brother-in-law, Billy Hayden.

He is survived by three sons, Kevin Sumlin and wife Jennifer, Dean Lewis, and Dodd Lewis and wife Tresa all of Monroe; grandchildren, Sean and Claire Sumlin, and Brandon and Dylan Lewis; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Pallbearers will be Keith McGough, Greg McGough, Sean Sumlin, Brandon Lewis, Dylan Lewis, and Dudley Cowan.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude’s’s Children’s Research Hospital or to Lea Joyner Memorial Methodist Church in Monroe.