Feb. 13, 1948 – Jan. 8, 2020

 

VIDALIA— Memorial services for Roy M. Reyes, 71, of Ferriday, who died Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, at Merit Health Natchez, will be 7 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church of Vidalia with Bro. Wes Faulk officiating.  

Visitation will be from 6 p.m. until service time today at the church.

Arrangements are under the direction of Comer Funeral Home.

Roy Reyes was born Feb. 13, 1948, in Raymondville, Texas, the son of Roger D. Reyes and Mary Reyes.

Roy retired from the City of Vidalia as the Street Department Superintendant. with 23 years of service and was a part-time Vidalia police officer.  He grew a love of the outdoors while being raised and working beside his father and grandfather as a cowboy on the King Ranch in Texas.

Roy was preceded in death by his mother and one niece, René Rodriguez.

Survivors include his wife, Janie Tucker Reyes; two sons, Roy Reyes and wife, Crystal, of Ferriday, and Levi Reyes and wife, Nikki, of Monroe, Louisiana; his father, Roger D. Reyes of Vidalia; one sister, Diane Rodriguez of Vidalia; one brother, Steve Reyes of Carthage, Texas; four granddaughters, Bailey Reyes, Brooklyn Reyes, Lyla Cate Reyes and Ally Crofford; and two grandsons, Lawson Reyes and Holden Tucker Reyes.