Mrs. Hazel Swain Dyal, 92

Mrs. Hazel Swain Dyal, 92, of Baxley passed away April 4 at Pineland Personal Care Home in Hazlehurst under the care of Comfort Care Hospice.
Mrs. Dyal was born Jan. 17, 1933, in Appling County to the late Dude Swain and the late Odessa Yarbrough Swain. She was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church where she served as the Church Clerk for 32 years. Mrs. Dyal was a homemaker and was preceded in death by her husband, James Richard Dyal, grandson Robert Edwards Sr., sister Opal Swain Carroll and brothers Doy Swain and Vadlus “Boody” Swain.
Survivors include her daughters Carolyn (Bobby) Mathews and Linda (Troy) Collins both of Baxley; sisters Ethelyn (Sammy) Creech and Winifred Mathis both of Hazlehurst; grandchildren Mandy (Jessie) Varnadore, Tina (Greg) Beecher, Shawn Mathews, Andy Collins and Matt (Katie) Collins; and grandchildren Andrea (Lemial) NeeSmith, Rhonda (Rick) Herrin, Kenslee (Tommy) Wood, Trent (Vera) Varnadore, Robert Edwards, Jr., Kayla Edwards, Cara (Haley) Edwards, Trey (Tara) Mincey, Tori (Garrett) Thornton, Bailey Mathews and Trent Mathews, Walker Collins and Wesley Collins; 14 great great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Services were April 6 from the chapel of Swain Funeral Home with the Rev. Pete Aycock, the Rev. Jeffery Spell and the Rev. Michael Sapp officiating. Interment followed in Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Hazlehurst.
Active pallbearers were Ernest Kersey, Cole Harrison, Jimmy McLeod, Jerry Baxley, Greg Beecher, and Mikie Taylor.
Honorary pallbearers were Comfort Care Hospice, Pineland Personal Care staff and all in attendance.
Music was rendered by the Rev. Jeffery Spell, Kara Hallman, and Kim Hall.
In lieu of flowers remembrances may be made to Oak Grove Baptist Church.
Swain Funeral Home was in charge.