{"id":225068,"date":"2026-03-18T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225068\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:54:09","slug":"mayor-jerry-dyer-mourns-his-fathers-death-says-goodbye-to-his-childhood-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225068\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Jerry Dyer mourns his father\u2019s death, says goodbye to his \u201cchildhood hero\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Mayor Jerry Dyer announced that his father had passed away on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Jerry Dyer wrote on social media, \u201c Today was the toughest day of my life as I had to say goodbye to my childhood hero, my Dad. The toughest man I have ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe taught me to have a strong work ethic and to be a man of my word. \u201c<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mayor Jerry Dyer mourns his father\u2019s death, says goodbye to his \u201cchildhood hero\u201d (Courtesy: Mayor Jerry Dyer)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0551c778-2efb-4a4c-8722-ad4f2f249c33-654723439_1330796075525089_439123277733814377_n.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Jerry Dyer mourns his father\u2019s death, says goodbye to his \u201cchildhood hero\u201d (Courtesy: Mayor Jerry Dyer)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so thankful I had the opportunity to lead my Dad to Christ many years ago and rejoice in knowing that he is in the loving arms of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRest in peace Dad. And thank you for the memories. I love you!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Mayor Jerry Dyer announced that his father had passed away on Tuesday. Mayor Jerry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-225068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}