Alvin Leslie Dial, 77, of Blackburn, MO, died Sunday, April 2, 2023, at his home.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, April 7, 2023, at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Blackburn with William W. Harlow officiating.  Burial with military rites will follow at Blackburn Cemetery.  Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday at the church.  Memorials are suggested to Blackburn Cemetery or family choice in care of Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home.  An online guestbook is available at www.campbell-lewis.com.

Born August 31, 1945, in rural Nelson, MO, he was the son of the late Edgar Leslie Dial and Cecil Noreen Cureton Dial.  Alvin was raised in the Nelson area and was a 1963 graduate of Nelson High School.  On August 15, 1965, he married Carolyn Gregory who survives of the home.  He was a United States Army Veteran and was honorably discharged in 1968.  Alvin lived in Blackburn all of his adult life and was a member of St. Paul’s United Church of Christ.  He worked for Standard Oil Fertilizer, which later became Amoco and then SCF, then at United Refrigeration and Coreslab, both in Marshall. Alvin most recently for West-Central Independent Living Solutions (WILS) where he built handicap accessible ramps.  He especially liked his work with WILS because he was helping people be able to get in and stay in their own homes as well as getting to interact with those he helped.  Alvin enjoyed horseshoe pitching and bow shooting. He was a former member of the Masonic Lodge, a current member of Tieman-Blackburn American Legion Post 478 and Marshall Bow Hunters.

In addition to his wife of 57 years, Carolyn; he is survived by two daughters, Sharla Wright (Earl) of Blackburn and Leslie Dierking (Craig) of rural Sweet Springs; one grandson, Aaron Wright; one brother, Norman Dial (Barbara) of Nelson; as well as nieces, nephews, and other extended family members.

Alvin was preceded in death by his parents; one grandson, Cody Austin Dierking; and a brother who died at birth, Clarence Alyn Dial.