Jeff L. Dyer, 75 of Springfield passed away Sunday, December 18, 2016 in his home. Jeff was born to W.L. "Pat" and Josefa L. "Jo" Dyer on July 20, 1941. At a very early age his family moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico where he grew up.

He played baseball in high school and college. In high school he was a record setting pitcher for the Carlsbad Cavemen State Champions and a member of the All State Baseball teams. He attended Sul Ross University on a baseball scholarship where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration.

After college Jeff went to work for Duval Corp's potash mining operation where he became the department head over storage, loading and shipping of the product. Trains leaving the mine full of product often pulling 200+ cars destined for many points in the US and foreign places. Should there be a derailment and a call came to him at home during the night he was able to provide the assigned destination of any given car number from memory.

In 1977, Jeff transferred to the sales division of Duval and chose Springfield as the central location from which he traveled extensively. After a few years he accepted a position with Bill Barr & Company representing many products used in the preparation of animal feeds. Later Jeff became the CEO and General Manager of a mining firm in SE Kansas where Mag-mica was produced and used in the preparation of animal feeds. Jeff enjoyed working with several Universities on research and development of the magnesium mica product and was fascinated by any possible new uses for it. He retired from Micro-Lite about 10 years ago.

While settling into retirement, Jeff joined Bible Study Fellowship where he enjoyed in-depth Bible study. He also enjoyed being a member of the ShoMe Statesmen Barber Shop Chorus. He was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church.

Jeff was preceded in death by his parents, sister Patricia Batey and nephew Bobby Batey, father-in-law, Robert F. Stroup and brother-in-law, Robert Stroup.

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Aleta and children: son, Michael; daughter Vicki Brinck and her husband Per-Ola; three grandchildren, Niklas, Anna and J. Daniel Brinck. Also surviving is one brother-in-law, Bob Batey and a niece, Sandra Batey Hillmer, her husband Scott and their children, Jason Hillmer, Emily Gaylord and Clayton Hillmer. Mother-in-law, Edna Paddock, sister-in-law, Gayle Hocker and her children, Loura Lambright and Aleta Moberg and Jimmy Swift.

Funeral services will be Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. at All Saints Anglican Church. A visitation will precede the service from 10 to 10:30 a.m in the church.