Service for Joel Diers, age 75, of Dexter, will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday, March 12, 2016, at Baker Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends prior to the service beginning at 12:00 Noon. Mr. Diers died Wednesday, March 9, 2016.

Joel worked with Lord's Quality Meats for twenty years and retired from AIG after twenty years. He was a loving husband of fifty-two years and wonderful father and grandfather to his family.

Mr. Diers enjoyed being the star of "Hunting with Hawghead and Papa Joel" video series. He wrote the song, "Hanging on the Cross" while actually sitting in a deer stand. Most of all he loved God and the church.

Mr. Diers was preceded in death by his parents, Julius and Essie Pearl Diers; sister, Sherry Wright; brothers, Noah Diers, Spencer Diers, and L. W. Diers.

Survivors include his wife of fifty-two years, Hilda Diers, of Dexter; children, Joey (Candi) Diers, and Pam (David) Woodard, all of Dexter; grandchildren, Kaylee Diers, Savannah Woodard, Will Diers, Ethan Thompson, all of Dexter; sisters, Arlene (Earl) Stewart, Marie (Marcelle) Barron, both of Dexter, Bonnie (Hernan) Alias, of Boston, MA; brothers, Bobby (Janice) Diers, of Dexter, and Rex Diers of Cochran.

Will Diers, Mitch Poole, Chuck Williams, Ronnie Bates, Tony Johnson, T. J. Nesmith, and Shannon Claxton will serve as pallbearers.

Honorary pallbearers will be Gene Woods, Junior Evans, Harold Hunter, F. M. Jones, and Junior Knight.

Mr. Diers wanted donations to be given to the building fund at Baker Baptist Church in lieu of flowers in his memory. He will truly be missed and remembered by all. He was one of a kind.