Gregory Dees passed away on August 24, 2025 in Bryan, Texas at the age of 65 due to complications from having undergone multiple surgeries in less than a week. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on May 1, 1960 to his parents, Joseph Clinton Dees and Annis Pauline Dowden Dees.
Greg grew up in Many, Louisiana and attended Many schools, playing drums in the band and learning about the natural wo rld in his mother’s Cub Scout troop. He attended Alford Heights Baptist Church and was baptized there at age 10, along with his 12-year-old sister. Later in life he became a member of the First Baptist Church of Bryan, Texas. In a Will that he wrote out before he went into the hospital he expressed his feelings about how a person should live in order to gain God’s favor, that is, with “Joy, Goodness, Love, Wisdom, and Self-Control,” things he had been learning much about as of late.
At a young age Greg began working offshore on drilling rigs, mainly as a derrickman at a time when the oilfield was booming. He also worked as a carpenter in Many and in Connecticut with his father-inlaw’s contracting business. He completed many carpentry and landscaping projects for his sister at her home in College Station, Texas. He was a perfectionist with his carpentry work, often ripping things out and redoing them so he could get it just right. In the mid-90s Greg also took classes at Blinn College where he had studied to become a radiologist, advancing to a practicum where he worked in a local hospital right before he got sick and had to have a kidney removed.
Like his daddy Greg played guitar and like his mother he wrote songs and poems on topics ranging from the spiritual to the comical to the political, including “Saddam’s Last Stand.” Greg loved to hunt, fish, cook, and share his homemade blackberry wine. He was fiercely proud of his daughter, a nurse, and his stepson who is studying Computer Engineering. Greg’s sense of humor will be missed.
Greg is survived by his daughter, Ashley Nicole Dees, and his stepson, Christopher Cody Farquer; his children’s mother and his second wife, Rebecca Mc-Bride Plotts; his sister, Jackie Dees Domingue (husband Brad); and nieces Camille Domingue and Claire Domingue Boyd. Greg was previously married to Stacey Anderson of Many plus had a long relationship with Elizabeth Carter.
A celebration of life gathering is being planned.