Pyland Sr., Daniel Ray 


HUGHES SPRINGS -- Funeral services for Daniel Ray Pyland Sr., 
55, of Ore City, will be 2 p.m. Friday, September 22, 2006, at 
Reeder-Davis Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Otis Thrash 
officiating. Interment will follow in Ore City Cemetery, under 
the direction of Reeder-Davis Funeral Home, Inc. Mr. Pyland 
died Tuesday, September 19, 2006, at a Longview hospital. He 
was born January 27, 1951, in Shakopee, Minnesota. He worked 
in pipe testing and was a member of New Life Assembly of God. 
He served in the U.S. Army during Vietnam. He was preceded in 
death by his father, Dennis L. Pyland; sisters, Brenda Ruiz and 
Sharon Robinson; and a great-granddaughter, Olivia Ray Loraine 
Spangler. Survivors include his wife, Mary Francis Pyland of 
Ore City; two sons and daughters-in-law, Daniel Ray Jr. and 
Teresa Pyland of White Oak, and Kenneth Roy and Tabitha 
Anderson of Grovetown, Ga.; one daughter, Loretta Lynne and 
Larry Lampkin of Harleton; mother, Mary Ellen Pyland of Ore 
City; three brothers, Dennis Pyland of Houston, David Pyland 
of South Carolina, and Dale Pyland of Diana; seven sisters, 
Mary Myers, Arlene Pyland, Gwen Dunn, and Donna Turner, all 
of Ore City, Jean Hurley of Houston, Becky Quinn of Dallas, 
and Pam Casey of Pritchett; 12 grandchildren, Kenneth Roy 
Anderson Jr., Ashlynn Nicole Key, Tyler Dean Key, Alyssa 
Aubrey Anderson, Nathan Mikel Pyland, Shadie Nicole Pyland, 
Dakota Ryan Pyland, John Allen Little, Tyler Lee Little, 
Joshua Ray Spangler, William Dane Robertson, and Ali Lampkin; 
one great-grandchild, Peyton Ray Spangler; numerous nieces 
and nephews; and his extended family of sisters- and 
brothers-in-law. Viewing and visitation will be Thursday 
afternoon and evening, September 21, 2006, at the funeral 
home. The family will receive friends after 6 p.m.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 9/21/2006.