Linuel D. Jayroe

Dr. Linuel D. Jayroe, age 87, passed away on Saturday, August 23, 2025, in Gadsden, AL. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, August 27th, at Porter Funeral Home, with Rev. Junior Davis and Dr. Greg Belser officiating. Visitation will be Wednesday from 9:00 A.M. until service time at the funeral home. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Porter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Linuel was born October 6, 1937, in Louisville, MS to Leroy Foster Jayroe and Lee Audis Nichols Jayroe. He was a graduate of Louisville High School and continued his education receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Mississippi College in Clinton, MS. He was also awarded a doctoral degree from the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Linuel was a Professor Emeritus of Education and Psychology at Mississippi College in Clinton until his retirement in 2002. He was also very involved in the Boy Scouts of America and served as Assistant and Scout Master of Troop 345 in Clinton. He was also an ordained minister and a member of Morrison Heights Baptist Church in Clinton and was a Sunday School teacher there at the church for many years.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Leroy and Lee Audis Jayroe and his first wife Jan Gault Jayroe. 

Linuel is survived by his two sons and their families - Will Judson and Melissa Jayroe and their son William Carter, and John Day and America Jayroe and their son Joshua Day and daughter Lydia Marie.

Linuel is also survived by his sister, Dr. Linda Jayroe Pepper and her husband Tim and their children Chris and Lucy Cournoyer (Jake and Owen); Lauren and Benji Foreman (Jack and Beau); Justin and Anna Pepper (Wilson and Anna Grace); and Eden D. Pepper.

From the Gault family, Linuel is survived by his brother-in-law Jimmy Gault and sister-in-law Sally Gault Scheibner, Evan and Kathy Gault and family, Dan and Vicki Farmer and family.

Linuel is also survived by his second wife Dianne Deevers Jayroe, and her children’s families Kimberly King and husband Mike (Finn), Amy Long husband Kerry (Josie and Mimi), Melissa Swingle (Isabel), Christy Kaplan husband Justin (Ezekiel and Gianna).

Serving as pallbearers will be John Jayroe, Will Jayroe, Joshua Jayroe, Chris Cournoyer, and Evan Gault.

Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Mississippi Baptist Children's Village, www.baptistchildrensvillage.com.