Lester Eugene Conyers

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Service Schedule
Graveside Service
Crittenden Memorial Park
2206 Hwy 64
Marion, AR  72364
Friday, February 1, 2019
2:00 PM
Cemetery
Crittenden Memorial Park
2206 Highway 64 West
Marion, AR  72364
Lester Eugene Conyers

of Gainesville, GA

August 19, 1941 - January 24, 2019

Lester Conyers

Dr. Lester Eugene Conyers, Jr., 77, of Gainesville, Georgia and formerly of West Memphis, Arkansas died Thursday, January 24, 2019. He was born in West Memphis, Arkansas on August 19, 1941 to L.E. and Dorothy Haley Conyers.

Dr. Conyers graduated from the West Memphis High School. He attended Memphis State University where he was a member of Lambda Chi Fraternity and received both his undergraduate and Masters in Business. He then received his doctorate from at the University of Southern Mississippi. He taught at Jackson State University and Union University in Jackson, Tennessee before moving to Georgia where he taught at North Georgia College and finally State University in Dahlonega, Georgia. He retired from teaching in 2000. He was married to Linda Dean Conyers on January 22, 1965 and the two were together for 52 years before she passed in 2017. He was a member of First Baptist Church in West Memphis and First Methodist Church in Gainesville, Georgia. He enjoyed woodworking, making furniture, golfing, traveling the country in his motor home and most of all his dear lifetime friends.

He is survived by his daughter, Haley Dean Conyers.

Graveside Service will be held on Friday, February 1, 2019 at 2:00 PM at Crittenden Memorial Park in Marion, Arkansas.



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