Jeter Dockery "Doc" Byrd

Doc Byrd of Mount Gilead, NC passed to the heavenly realm on July 2, 2024 at FirstHealth Hospice House in Pinehurst.  A celebration of life service with Masonic rites will be held at Hamer Creek Baptist Church on July 6, 2024 at 11 o’clock.  Interment will be held in the church cemetery.  The Reverend Rupert Medford will officiate.  The family will meet with family and friends from 10 to 11 o’clock in the church fellowship building.

Doc was born on October 21st 1939 in Montgomery County as the ninth child to Nathan Jeter Byrd and Beulah Elizabeth Little.  In 1966 he married the love of his life and soul mate Linda Gardner who passed in 2012.  He was ready to leave this life and requested to go to Hospice House where Linda had passed.  

He retired from Jordan Lumber Company working at first as a truck driver and later worked in the scale house.  Over the years Doc enjoyed horseback riding, spending time at Holden Beach, gardening, watching Atlanta Braves baseball, Carolina Tarheels basketball and NASCAR racing.  After the passing of Linda, Doc spent time visiting with family and friends and especially enjoyed going and seeing friends at Hall’s Auction House in Marshville, NC.  

He was preceded in death by brothers Lee, L.P., Bill and sisters Mae Harrison and Lois Sneed.

Survivors are brothers and sisters Frances Martin of Pinehurst,  Eunice Douthit of Thomasville, Thomas (Reba) Byrd of Oakboro, Joyce McNeill and Harris (Mary) Byrd both of Mount Gilead,  numerous nieces and nephews, special family Larry and Ellen Thompson and family of Mount Gilead and best friend Lenny (Pat) Pigford of Mount Gilead.

Memorials can be made to Hamer Creek Baptist Church, 4830 NC Hwy 109, Mt. Gilead, NC 27306 or FirstHealth Hospice and Palliative Care, 251 Campground Rd., West End NC  27376.

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