Dennis Pearl Pace

Dennis Pearl Pace Gladewater -- Services for Dennis Pearl Pace, 86, of Gladewater, will be held on Thursday, December 15, 2011, at 10 A.M. at Croley Funeral Home Chapel with Blake Gage officiating. Burial will be in Gladewater Memorial Park. Born on March 8, 1925, in Gladewater, Texas, he died on Tuesday, December 13, 2011. He was a retired rig operator in the oil field. He is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Mary Ann and Don Mathews of Gladewater and Judy Reynolds and Joe Tullos of Hallsville; 4 grandchildren, Stacy and Kelvin Vineyard of East Mountain; Ricky and Kelly Reynolds of East Mountain; Laura and Danny Langford of Latch; Donald Lee Mathews, Jr. of Gladewater; 9 great-grandchildren; sister and brother-in-law, Doris and Wilburn Gage of White Oak; brother and sister-in-law, J.L. and Dorothy Pace of White Oak; brother, Abe Pace of Diana; and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife of 54 years, Dorothy Marie Pace and granddaughter, Rhonda Ann Reynolds. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 P.M. on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, at Croley Funeral Home in Gladewater.