Age 56, Nacogdoches, Texas - Graveside services will be 10:00 AM Thursday in the Highland Cemetery with Rev. William F. Todd, Senior Pastor, Centenary United Methodist Church, officiating. Mr. Neely died Friday, March 21, 2008 in Nacogdoches, Texas. Burial will be under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. A visitation will be held at the Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Home in Nacogdoches, Texas on Tuesday from 5:00 – 7:00 PM. He was born on August 22, 1951 in Wichita Falls, Texas to Henry Samuel and Billineil Neely. Mr. Neely was a caring husband and father. He was a compassionate man who took care of his family and business. He was well educated and a member of Sigma Xi, research society, active in his family's life and enjoyed working with animals. He was a devoted caregiver to his mother. He enjoyed working with his furniture business and customers. Joe had a great sense of humor to all those who knew him. Survivors include his wife, Pamela, his daughter, Kelsey Caitlyn, and son, Wesley Randall, all of Nacogdoches, Texas; his brother, Richard William Neely and his wife, Mary Margaret, of Kingwood, Texas; four nephews, a niece, a great niece and a great nephew; his mother-in-law, Jeanette Webb; two sisters-in-law, Clarice Roper and her husband, Fred, and Laura Blake and her husband, Steve; and a brother-in-law, Gary Webb. His parents, Billineil and Henry Samuel Neely, Jr., and his father-in-law, Edgar Melvern Webb, preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to the Nacogdoches Animal Shelter, 3211 SW Stallings Drive, Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 or to the Hospice of Deep East Texas, 907 N. Mound, Nacogdoches, Texas 75961.