James Eddie Dye

November 26, 1959 - April 21, 2019

James Eddie Dye, age 59 of Lynchburg died Sunday, April 21, 2019 in Southern Tennessee Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 1:00 o’clock PM in the chapel of Lynchburg Funeral Home with burial to follow in Lynchburg Cemetery beside his first wife, Helen Marie Platz Dye. The Dye Family will receive friends at Lynchburg Funeral Home on Wednesday, April 24, 2019 from 11:00 o’clock AM until time for the service. A native of Fayetteville, TN, Mr. Dye was the son of the late James Christopher Dye and Freda Eslick Dye, who survives. He was a purchasing agent for the Tennessee Tanning Company of Tullahoma, a farmer and member and song leader at the Lois Church of Christ. Mr. Dye loved his family, farming and working his cattle, and fishing. In addition to his mother, Mr. Dye is survived by his wife, Sybil Hillis Dye, of Lynchburg, son, James Matthew Dye of Nashville, daughter, Amanda Dye Dickey and husband Chris of Lynchburg, brother, Bobby Dye of Lynchburg, grandchildren, Neleh Marie Dickey and Cooper Ryce Dickey, step-daughter, Angela Schmidt and husband Danny of Elora, step-son, Cory Logan and wife Julie of South Haven, MS, step-grandchildren, Joseph Schmidt and wife, Alison, Emily Street and husband Tyler, Devon Schmidt, Aidan Logan and Sawyer Logan, and step-great-grandchild, Maddisyn Schmidt.