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Bernice G. Dyess, known as B. G. Dyess (August 16, 1922 – February 18, 2013),〔(Obituary )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=B. G. Dyess obituary )〕 was for seventy-three years a Southern Baptist minister from Alexandria, Louisiana, who served as a conservative Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1996 to 2000, in which capacity he was known for his opposition to gambling. From 1964 to 1988, Dyess was the Rapides Parish Registrar of Voters, a position to which he was appointed by the parish police jury (akin to the county commission in other states). The registrar's position brought Dyess ''ex officio'' membership on the Louisiana State Board of Election Supervisors. He was succeeded as registrar by Joanell Luke Wilson. Ms. Wilson retired in 2015 and was succeeded by Linda "Lin" Dyess Stewart, daughter of B. G. Dyess. ==Early years and family== Dyess was born in the Valentine Creek/Gardner community of western Rapides Parish to Josie B. Dyess (1876-1965), subsequently a Ward 5 constable, and the former Sarah Matilda Smith (1888–1978). His paternal grandparents were Edmond D. Dyess and the former Margaret Mathis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RootsWeb: JENKINS )〕 He graduated from Oak Hill High School in the Oak Hill community of western Rapides Parish and later attended Louisiana College, a Baptist-affiliated institution in Pineville. He was ordained to preach at the age of seventeen and had by the time of his death at the age of ninety officiated or assisted in more than 1,500 funerals in central Louisiana, including close family members.〔 On his nineteenth birthday, Dyess married his former Oak Hill classmate, Ava Brister (August 12, 1923–January 7, 2005),〔 a native of Winn Parish, born near Sikes in the Brister community. Ava was the third child of Wiley E. Brister, a farmer, and the former Nancy Ada Hudson (died 1933). Ava Brister and B.G. Dyess married on August 16, 1941, four days after her eighteenth birthday. Because both of her parents had died by the time that Ava was only ten years of age, she was reared thereafter by her brother, Houston Brister, and his wife, Era.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary of Ava Brister Dyess, January 8, 2005 )〕 B. G. and Ava Dyess had seven children: Madeline Faye Dyess (born and died May 6, 1943), two sons, Mac Dyess and wife Cheryl of Deville in Rapides Parish, and Marc C. Dyess and wife Sandra of Zachary, Louisiana; four daughters: Loretta Dyess Cooley and husband Leonard, and Linda Dyess Stewart and husband Charles, both couples from Alexandria; Debbie Dyess Giles and husband Tony of Woodworth in Rapides Parish; and Louise Dyess Fontaine of Vacaville, California.〔 Reverend Dyess subsequently married the former Billie Whittington, who survives him. Dyess outlived all of his siblings. His three older brothers were the Elbert James Dyess (1911–2008), the Reverend Oscar Carl Dyess (1915–2006), and the Reverend Ted Dyess.〔 His other brothers were Lloyd Dyess, former superintendent of grounds and the dairy at Central State Hospital in Pineville; and Rufus Dyess of Oakland, California. His sisters were Jodie Dyess Marler (ca. 1909-2011) of Hineston, Louisiana, Bertha Dyess Marler, and Jessie Dyess Dubois. While Dyess was called to the ministry through the Baptist denomination, his brother Oscar or O. C. was a pastor in the Pentecostal Church in Louisiana, with wide-ranging assignments in the small towns of Ridgecrest, Montgomery, Kentwood, Rosepine, Merryville, Columbia (the seat of Caldwell Parish), Ferriday, and Woodworth. B. G. Dyess was among the ministers officiating at the funeral of his brother Oscar Dyess. Another brother, Ted Dyess, was also a Pentecostal minister pastoring in the western United States, primarily in California. His brother Elbert Dyess was a master craftsman whose extensive work can be seen at the Leesville Railroad Museum in Leesville in Vernon Parish, where a replica of the old Dyess homestead, a church, and other buildings can be viewed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary of O. C. Dyess )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「B. G. Dyess」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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