Lucile Tyree

1. Full Name: Lucile Emily Tyree Age: 93 Years Sex: F

2. Current address: Topeka

3. Date of death: Thursday , February 20, 2003

4 Place of death: Topeka care home

5. Cause of death:

6. Date of birth: July 22, 1909 Place of birth: Moline, Kansas

6.b. Parents: Lloyd E. and Margaret Miller Richardson

6.c. Years in current city/town:

7. Background: Mrs. Tyree was raised in Elk County. She attended junior college in Parsons. She moved to
Wichita in 1935, lived for a while in Albuquerque, and had lived in Topeka since 1970. Following her husband's
death, she did child care in Wichita, and later worked as a nanny in California and in Albuquerque. After coming to
Topeka, she worked as a foster grandparent at KNI for 27 years before retiring.


8. Relatives: Married to: Orin R. Tyree, April 5, 1939 in Wichita, Kansas. He died June 10, 1954

8.b. preceded in death by: Dau: Doris L. Tyree in 1940; Sons: Kenneth Orin Tyree in 1945 and Robert
A. Tyree in 1990
8.c. Immediate survivors:
Daughter: Mary Ellen Baxter, Albuquerque, NM
8 Grandchildren
17 Great-grandchildren
11 Great-great-grandchildren
1 Great-great-great-grandson


9. Service time, day, date, place: Memorial services will be 10:00 am Thursday in the Mulvane Chapel at
the United Methodist Home.

10. Graveside Services: 3:00 pm Thursday at Highland Cemetery, Wichita, Kansas

11. Visitation times, place: Mrs. Tyree will lie in state at Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel from 9 am to 9 pm
Sunday.

12. Vigil, wake, rosary, other:

13. Memorial contributions, if any: Kansas Neurological Institute, 3107 SW 21st St., Topeka 66604 or to
United Methodist Home, 1135 SW College Ave., Topeka 66604.

14. Funeral home in charge: Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel, 1321 SW 10th Ave., Topeka, Kansas
66604
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