James Martin Bybee

To View Video Of Funeral Service Click Here James Martin Bybee passed away Monday, April 18, 2022 in Azle. Service: 10:00 A.M. Monday, May 23, 2022 at White’s Azle Chapel . Visitation: 6 to 8 P.M. Friday, May 20, 2022 at White’s Funeral Home in Azle. Interment: 2:00 P.M. Monday, May 23, 2022 at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery in Dallas. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in support of the James and Johnnie Bybee Memorial Landscape and Garden Project at Silver Creek Assisted Living Center in Azle. James Martin Bybee was born March 5, 1930 in Childress to James Madison and Lula Mable Graham Bybee. At a young age they moved to East Texas where he grew up farming in the Cash, Van Syckle, Greenville area. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He proudly served his country as a Sergeant in the Army Reserves. James became an ordained minister May 10, 1959. He pastored Roanoke Baptist Church in East Texas and Ridgeway Baptist Church in Ridgeway, Texas. He is remembered by family members as a deeply devoted servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. James was a former member of the Masonic Lodge in Forney, Texas. He retired as a painter of airplane parts from Red Bird Airport in Dallas. James was married to Doris Abbott of Dixon, Texas for 17 years. They had three children, Martin Lane, Mary Elizabeth and Pamela Ruth. He was married to Bertha Jane Daniels (Janie) until her death in 1994. In 2004 he married his beloved Johnnie Chambers. Together they ministered to the sick and dying of their church with food, prayer and fellowship in homes, hospitals and nursing facilities. They moved to Azle where they lived until his death April 18, 2022. The family extends our gratitude to the staff at Silver Creek Assisted Living Center for the good care they gave James and continue to give his wife, Johnnie. James was preceded in death by his parents, James and Lula Bybee; brothers, Larry, Ray and Handley Bybee; sisters, Lula May Terriah, Mamie Faye Meyers and Beulah Hope Daniels; and wife, Janie Bybee. Survivors: Wife, Johnnie Mae Bybee; sons, Martin Lane Bybee and wife, Brenda, Danny Daniels and wife, Dora, Freddie Chambers and wife, Loydean and Tommie Chambers; daughters, Mary Elizabeth and husband, Rickey Dean Baker, Pamela Ruth and husband, Steve Freeman, Sandra Chambers Bodak , Christy Gentry and Terrie Miller; eight grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews.