Services for Roy Hulett Bean, 93, of Tyler will be held on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, at 2:30 p.m. at Stewart Family Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Rhett Ansley officiating.

Burial with military honors will follow in Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery under direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home.

Mr. Bean passed away Jan. 17, 2012. He was born Oct. 3, 1918, in Little Rock, Ark., to the late Winslow G. Bean and music composer Mabel Bean.

Roy received his bachelor's degree in music from Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway, which is now known as the University of Central Arkansas. During World War II, Roy was a navigator of B24s. He started teaching band at Fordyce High School in 1940 and later at Conway High School before moving to Texas in 1950 where he taught band and choir mostly in Beaumont and Silsbee. Roy also directed choirs in Methodist churches for more than 30 years. He was principle French horn player in the Arkansas State Symphony Orchestra and played 10 years in the Beaumont Symphony. Roy was also a member of First United Methodist Church in Bullard.

Mr. Bean was preceded in death by his first wife, Pearl Iva Bean, in 1987, and by his second wife, Dorothy Bridenthall Bean, in 2008.

Roy is survived by his loving family, including his children, Judy Breitling and husband Don of Bullard and Charles W. Bean and wife Betty of Nederland. He is also survived by five grandchildren and eight great- grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Dustin Rounsavall, Michael Breitling, Carlos Guerra, Tim Bean, Dr. Joe Bill Belue and Chris Bennett.

Visitation is scheduled from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., one hour prior to service, at Stewart Family Funeral Home, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway in Tyler.

The family wishes to thank Roy's special friends, Brenda Hobbs, Amy Wright and Carmen Cortez, and hospice nurse Joyce Story, for their love and devotion to him.

Memorials in honor of Roy may be made to The Hospice of East Texas Foundation, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, 75701.