EBENEZER CEMETERY - CAMP COUNTY

Birth: 	Oct. 14, 1934
Death: 	Feb. 16, 2006

MOUNT PLEASANT - Services for Paul Messer, 72, Mount Pleasant, are 
scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Erman Smith Funeral Home chapel, 
Pittsburg, with the Rev. Steve Mathis officiating. Burial will be in 
Ebenezer Cemetery, Camp County. Mr. Messer died Feb. 16, 2007, in a 
Tyler hospital. 

He was born Oct. 14, 1934, in Kentucky to the late Otto and Debbie 
Jane Bailey Messer. He was a concrete contractor, and a member of the 
Bricklayers Union. 

He was preceded in death by son, Jerry Paul Messer.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann Sweet, Mount Pleasant; son, Gary 
Messer, Mount Pleasant; stepsons, Martin Sweet, Mount Pleasant, Daniel 
Sweet, Grapevine, Harry Sweet, West Covina, Calif., and Randy Sweet, 
Pittsburg; daughter, Livia Duncan, Pittsburg; brother, Jake Messer, 
Tennessee; sisters, Margaret Burk, Fort Meyers, Fla., and Ruth Panzuto, 
Florence, S.C.; 19 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers are Daniel Duncan, Christopher Sweet, Martin Sweet, Randy 
Sweet, Kent Ford and Thomas Butcher.

Family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. 

Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 2/19/2007.