Obit of Lyles, Nerine Gladys (l420) - Texas County, Oklahoma

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Nerine Gladys Lyles

HOOKER, Okla. - Nerine Gladys Lyles, 81, died Tuesday, May 11, 1999, at 
Liberal, Kan.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in the Tyrone Baptist Church with the 
Rev. Carl Hein officiating. Burial will be in Tyrone Cemetery by Roberts 
Brothers Funeral Home.

Miss Lyles was born on the family farm south of Tyrone. She attended 
Phoenix Grade School and graduated from Tyrone High School in 1935. She 
attended Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee, graduating in 1941 with a 
bachelor's degree in education. She received her master's degree in 
education from Wayne State University at Detroit, Mich.

She taught at Dague School in Raton, N.M., Adams School and Oregon School 
for the Blind in Oregon. She also worked for the State Department of 
Education at Oklahoma City Children's Memorial Hospital as director and 
teacher of children's education. After her retirement, she tutored adults 
in reading.

She was a member of Tyrone Baptist Church, the Oklahoma Education Association, 
National Education Association, National Education 
Association, Council for Exceptional Children, Homebound and Hospitalized 
Children, Delta Kappa Gamma Society, the American Association of 
University Women, Toastmistress Club, Business Women's Book Club, the 
Audubon Society and the Sierra Club.

Survivors include a sister, Lois Baker, of Hooker.

Amarillo Globe News 14 May 1999
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