Pearl Algoe Tyer

TYER, ALGOE, HAINES, STEVENS, LIGHTNER, SATTERLEE

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 3/6/2006 at 09:47:33

Winterset Madisonian
March 3, 1999

Pearl Tyer, Winterset

Pearl Tyer, 85, died of complications of a stroke Feb. 25, 1999, at Winterset Care Center North.

Funeral services were held Monday, March 1, at the First United Presbyterian Church in Winterset with Pastors Dr. George Lair and Mary Pope officiating. Burial was at Winterset Cemetery.

Pearl Tyer was born April 19, 1913, in Scott Township, Madison County, to Dave and Emma Haines Algoe. A 1932 graduate of Winterset High School and a graduate of the Iowa Beauty School in Des Moines, she was a homemaker and a hairdresser. She married Gilbert Tyer on Feb. 2, 1937, at the United Presbyterian Church parsonage. Pearl was a member of the Zion Federated Church from 1913-1937, the United Presbyterian Church from 1937-1958, and the First United Presbyterian Church from 1958 to the present. She also was past president of the Madison county 4-H, a Sunday school teacher and superintendent, a member of the First United Presbyterian Church, Esther Circle and a former Pythian Sister.

She was preceded in death by one sister and two brothers.

She is survived by her husband of Winterset; one daughter, Marjorie D. Stevens (husband Larry) of Des Moines; one son, Bob W. of Port Hadlock, Wash.; two sisters, Goldie Lightner of Winterset and Elsie Satterlee of Bentonville, Ark.; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be directed to the First United Presbyterian Church in Winterset.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Ochiltree Funeral Service in Winterset.