Billy “Bumper Jack” Junior Sawyer, 62, of Abbeville died Thursday, October 2, 2014, at the Abbeville Nursing Center. A graveside funeral service will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 5, 2014, at Oak Ridge Cemetery, where Mr. Sawyer will be laid to rest. Rev. Joseph L. Crumley will officiate. The family will receive friends on Sunday, October 5, 2014, from 1:30 p.m. until the hour of the service at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.
Mr. Sawyer was born on March 16, 1952 in Tifton and was the son of Charles William Sawyer and Dorothy Frances McDaniel Sawyer, both deceased. He was also preceded in death by a sister, Danette Sawyer.
Mr. Sawyer is survived by four brothers, Vernon Eugene Sawyer of Leesburg, Charles Wendell Sawyer of Hinesville, Danny Sawyer of Cullman, Alabama and Henry Lee Sawyer of Dublin; and two sisters, Mary Joyce Johnson of Sumner and Jennell Jean Youmans of Cullman, Alabama.