Pastor A. L. Lyle

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, November 22, 2023

JEANERETTE—A celebration of life service for Pastor A. L. Lyle will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 28, 2023, at Calvary Pentecostal Church of Jeanerette. A second service will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, at Riley Smith and Sons Chapel of DeQuincy. Interment will follow at McFatter Cemetery in DeQuincy.

Visitation will be held beginning at 4 p.m. until the time of service on Tuesday, November 28, 2023, at Calvary Pentecostal Church of Jeanerette. Visitation will resume beginning at noon until the time of service on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, at Riley Smith and Sons Funeral Home of DeQuincy.

A native of Dequincy and a longtime resident and pastor of Jeanerette, Pastor Lyle died at 4:05 a.m. on Sunday, November 19, 2023, at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center.

Rev. A. L. Lyle was born into what he called humbled beginnings in a little clapboard home on the corner of two gravel roads. It was those beginnings that made him into the legacy that he became. Feeling a call to ministry at an early age he answered the call and became a giant in the Apostolic movement. His call took him to bible school, evangelism across the United States, mission work across the world, building churches and pastoring for over 50 years. There is no way to wrap up a legacy in one paragraph. Hebrews 11:32 And what shall I more say? For time would fail me.

A man of God; the five-fold ministry in one, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, mentor, father-in-law, legend – this is Rev. A. L. Lyle!

The complete life, ministry and travels of Rev. A. L. Lyle can be read in his autobiography, I Answered the Call. To purchase a copy email guillotte.jerome@yahoo.com.

He is survived by his wife of 59 years Carolyn Alston Lyle of Jeanerette; two daughters, Shaunda L. Chaddick and her husband Chad of New Iberia and Roxie L. Guillotte and her husband Jerome of Gulfport, Mississippi; five grandchildren, Mallory Layne Chaddick, Cami C. Richardson, Morgan Chaddick and his wife Hannah, Grant Matthew Chaddick and Gracie Claire Guillotte; seven great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law Romayne Lyle; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents William E. “Bill” Lyle and Florence Royer Lyle; a son Marcus Anthony Lyle; a brother Malcolm “Mack” Lyle; and a sister Barbara Hollingsworth.

Serving as pallbearers will be Ashton Smith, Grant Chaddick, Morgan Chaddick, Jason Pierce, Luke Pierce and Roger Duncan.

Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Sterling Winston and Landon Pierce. 

David Funeral Home of Jeanerette, 400 Provost St., 337-276-5151, is in charge of the arrangements.