{"id":302640,"date":"2026-05-06T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/302640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:35:15","slug":"mayor-jerry-dyer-mourns-his-mother-weeks-after-losing-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/302640\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Jerry Dyer mourns his mother weeks after losing father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two months after laying his father to rest, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer is now mourning the loss of his mother, Anna Lea Dyer, who died Tuesday morning, Dyer announced on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor said his mother died in her sleep after she combatted health issues for years. She was 87 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you are in the loving arms of Jesus and reunited with dad in heaven. Rest in peace,\u201d Dyer wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Dyer\u2019s father, Don Dyer, died on March 17 at the age of 87. The mayor honored his father\u2019s memory through a series of social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLosing a parent isn\u2019t easy, but I never realized how hard it would be,\u201d Dyer wrote in a post following his father\u2019s funeral on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements and more details to come.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777490828_538_IMG_4053.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nick Fenley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Fenley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nick Fenley is a reporter covering education, lawsuits, breaking news and more for The Fresno Bee. He\u2019s originally from the Imperial Valley and has been with The Bee since 2025.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than two months after laying his father to rest, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer is now mourning the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-302640","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\/302640","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=302640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}