Obit.Tulsa,OK- TYLER, Joe Earl
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Submitted by Jeff Smith in March 2005

TYLER, Joe Earl,82, Psychiatrist and mental health advocate,died December 31, 1999.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Christ United Methodist Church.
Born in Chalk, Texas, Tyler received his undergraduate degree from the 
University of Texas at Austin in 1938. He continued his education in 
Tennessee and graduated from the Vanderbilt School of Medicine in 1942. 
Tyler served as a major in the U.S. Army Air Corps' Medical Corps from 
1943 to 1946. He returned to serve his psychiatric residency at the 
Menninger Foundation School of Psychiatry from 1946 to 1948. 
After a year of teaching at the University of Arkansas Medical School, 
he moved his family to Tulsa and began his practice at the Springer Clinic. 
From 1974 to 1978, Tyler served as superintendent at Eastern State Hospital 
in Vinita, and from 1978 to 1983 he was the medical director at the hospital's 
Family Mental Health Clinic. 
Tyler served as a consultant to community mental health clinics until his 
retirement in 1994. 
He was involved in several professional organizations and was a life fellow 
with the American Psychiatric Foundation, the Oklahoma State Medical 
Association and the Southern Psychiat ric Association. 
He received an outstanding service award from the Oklahoma Psychiatric 
Association and was published in several professional journals. 
Survivors include his wife, Ann Tyler of Tulsa; three daughters, Vicki 
Tyler of Tulsa, Suzy Tyler of Tulsa and Cindy Armstrong of Afton; a son, 
Joe Tyler Jr. of Tulsa; three sisters, Margaret DeMoss of Graham, Texas, 
June Sanford of Midwest City and Nelda Merrett of Fort Worth, Texas; 
six grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. 
Friends are contributing to the Mental Health Association in Tulsa.