Obituaries:  R. J. Tyler, Sabine Parish       T-460
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 20, 1982
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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R. J. Tyler

  Services for Mr. R. J. Tyler, 68, of Benton, Were held at 11:30
a.m., Saturday, May 15, at Rose-Neath's Bossier City Chapel. The
Rev. Melton Prothro, pastor of Haughton Baptist Church,
officiated. Burial was in Loy Cemetery near Benton.

  He died Thursday, May 13, at his residence, after a sudden
illness. Mr. Tyler, born in Pleasant Hill, and a resident of
Benton for 38 years, was a retired operator for Sun Oil, and a
retired farmer.

  He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Thelma Virginia Tyler of
Benton; son, Ralph Tatum Tyler; and daughter, Miss Martha Ann
Tyler of Bossier City; sisters, Mrs. Mazelle Jamison, and Mrs.
Mary Litton of Pleasant Hill, Mrs. Dorothy Kilgore, and Mrs.
Corine Befros of Houston, Tex.; brothers, George Tyler of
Keithville, La., and Dewey Tyler of Monroe; grandsons, Matthew
Tatum Tyler, and Mark Audley Tyler of Bossier City.

  Pallbearers were Elmer Funk, Thurman Dyke, Melton Coker, W. H.
Huckaby, and the New Holland employees.