Rev. Jerry Lee Earle, age 70, of Brookings, went to be with the Lord Monday, November 1, 2010, at the Brookings Hospital, Brookings, South Dakota. Funeral services will be 11:00 A.M. Saturday, November 6, 2010, at Brookings First Assembly of God with interment and military rites in Greenwood Cemetery. Visitations will be from 6-8 P.M. Friday at Eidsness Funeral Home in Brookings.

Jerry Lee Earle was born April 15, 1940, at Gastonia, North Carolina, to Henry J. and Lillie M. (Mitchell) Earle. Jerry served in the US Army and received a Sharp Shooters Medal. He was in Fort Ord, California, for basic training then was sent to Fort Sam Houston in Texas for medical training. On April 17, 1963, he married Charlene Tubbs, who also served in the US Army at Fort Sam Houston Medical Center.

Jerry has been very involved in his church. He was Sunday School Superintendent at the the United Pentecostal Church in Burbank, California, under Pastor Robert Baglin. Jerry felt God calling him to preach the Gospel. In 1986 he became a licensed minister with the United Pentecostal Church International and in 1990 became ordained.

Rev. Jerry Earle pastored Voice of Truth Church in Brookings, South Dakota, from 1988 to 2008 and during this time he served as Harvestime Director and Foreign Missions Director for the South Dakota District of the United Pentecostal Church. He retired in 2008 when his health would no longer allow him to pastor.

Survivors include his wife, Charlene of Brookings; two daughters: Tonya (Alton) Vilhauer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, and Ruth (Don) Tisdel of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; his mother, Lillie Earle of Burbank, California; three brothers: Steve Earle of Burbank, David (Suzette) Earle of Northridge, California, and Eddie (Stephanie) Earle of Burbank; and one sister, Susan Earle of Burbank. He was preceded in death by his father, Henry Earle; his grandson, Christopher Tisdel; and his cousin, Richard Earle.