Tonya Dawn Dyer

Tonya Dawn Dyer obituary, Wetumka, OK

Tonya Dawn Dyer

Tonya Dyer Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Parks Brothers Funeral Home - Wetumka on Nov. 8, 2024.

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Funeral services for Tonya Dawn Dyer will be held Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM at the First Baptist Church of Wetumka. Interment will follow at the Wetumka Cemetery.
Tonya Dawn Dyer was born September 13, 1972 in Holdenville, Oklahoma to Jimmy Mark Gentry Sr. and Gloria (Washington) Gentry. She passed away Friday, November 8, 2024 in Shawnee, Oklahoma at the age of 52.
Tonya was a longtime resident of Wetumka and a 1991 graduate of Wetumka High School. She and Billy W. Dyer were married July 1, 1994 in Holdenville, Oklahoma. Tonya worked with the Oakridge Home in Wewoka for 20 years before being employed at Wes Watkins VoTech in Wetumka as an administrative assistant. Tonya loved her family dearly and especially enjoyed time with her grandson, Rustin. She liked to "Bedazzle" nearly anything and watching the news. She also loved her cat Nemo! Tonya will be dearly missed.
She is preceded in death by her father, Jimmy Mark Gentry, Sr.; her grandparents, Phoebe and Wesley Washington and Altha and Floyd Gentry and great grandparents, Maybelle and Edgar O'Neal.
Survivors include her husband, Billy Dyer of Wetumka; her mother, Gloria Gentry of Seminole; her son, Justin Dyer and wife Ellisa of Holdenville; one brother, Jimmy Mark Gentry Jr. and wife April of Seminole; four sisters, Angela O'Neal and husband Rodger of Holdenville, Melissa Lynn Martin of Holdenville, Gloria Dawn Wallace of Okmulgee and Alicia Fletcher and husband Jimmy of Allen, Oklahoma and one grandson, Rustin Ellis Dyer with one granddaughter on the way.
Serving as pallbearers will be Mark Gentry, Draven Thomas, Dakota Thomas, Rodger O'Neal, Jimmy Wallace and Noah Gentry.
Services will be under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Home, Wetumka, Oklahoma.
Online condolences may be made at www.ParksBrothersFuneralHome.com.
In lieu of flowers; any donations to help the Dyer family through this difficult time are welcome through the Billy Dyer account at the First United Bank of Wewoka.

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