Earl Wyatt

ON AUGUST 27,1942, MR. JOE ELLIS AND MRS. MARY ETTA WYATT BECAME THE PROUD PARENTS OF A HANDSOME BABY BOY WHOM THEY NAMED EARL LEWIS, EARL GREW UP IN NEW WILLARD, TEXAS, HE ATTENDED PUBLIC SCHOOLS AT DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL IN LIVINGSTON, TEXAS WHERE HE GRADUATED.

AT A VERY EARLY AGE HE UNITED WITH THE NEW BEULAH MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH.

ON MAY 11,1973 HE MARRIED OLLIE LEE CRISWELL, TO THIS UNION TWO CHILDREN WERE BORN, MICHAEL ANTHONY AND MARY LYNETTE

EARL WAS EMPLOYED WITH POLK COUNTY COURT HOUSE FOR 22 YEARS UNTIL HE RETIRED. THEN HE WENT TO WORK FOR AFFILIATED GROCERY STORE, UPON LEAVING THERE HE WENT TO BOLES SUPERMARKET IN ONALSKA, TEXAS AND BOLES ON COLDSPRING, TEXAS UNTIL THEY CLOSED THE STORE. AFTER RETIRING EARL LOVED TO GO TO BROOKSHIRE BROS. IN LIVINGSTON TO HANG OUT WITH THE FELLAS.

He was proceeded in death by both parents; Siblings: Audrey Wyatt; Dorothy Jefferson; Betty Criswell; Floyd Wyatt; Jean Dell Wyatt; Charles Wyatt

LEFT IN GODS CARE AND TO CHERISH HIS MEMORIES,HIS LOVING AND DEVOTED DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW MARY SMITH( GREGORY SMITH) OF LITTLE ELM, TEXAS, RENA EDWADS OF HOUSTON, TEXAS. SON: MICHAEL ANTHONY WYATT OF NEW WILLARD, TEXAS. GRANDCHILDRN: MICHELLE WYATT, DONTE STEPHENS, MICHAEL WYATT JR., GREGORY SMITH III. GREATGRANDCHILDREN: KAYDEN WYATT, BRRYNLEE WYATT, KA’LYNN CRISWELL . NIECES: VILORA WILLIAMS, OTEAL GILMORE (GREGORY), BERNA MAYS, BEVERLY ANN WYATT, CARLA TAYLOR, TRACY WYATT, TAMMARA MOORE (AUGUSTUS), YOLANDA JEFFERSON, MARIE GARCIA (DANNY)  NEPHEWS: ELLIS JEFFERSON (FELECIA), CLAUDIA (VELMA), RODNEY JEFFERSON, EUGENEJEFFERSON (NITA), HARRY WYATT (BRENDA), GARY W. WYATT, MELVIN WYATT, JOSEPH WYATT, RAY CRISWELLSR. , ELIJAH CRISWELL SR., A HOST OF OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.

Active Pallbearers: Michael Wyatt Jr.; Velton Price Jr.; Donta Stephens; Chester McGowen; Gregory Smith Jr.; Rodney Jefferson

Honorary Pallbearers: Michael Wyatt Sr.; Melvin Wyatt; Gary W. Wyatt; Milton Mays; James Walker; Harry Wyatt; Ellis Jefferson; Ray Criswell; Elder Melvin Stephens; Kirby Bookman