TYLER, Clara Larena "Rena" (Cummings) 1911-1998

TYLER, CUMMINGS, BIRD

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/27/2010 at 21:47:49

Clara "Rena" Tyler

OSAGE, IOWA — Clara "Rena" Tyler, 87, died Monday (Nov. 30, 1998) at Osage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, Osage.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Champion Funeral Home, Osage, with the Rev. Jerry Newland officiating. Burial will take place in Osage Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Champion Funeral Home.

Clara was born May 14, 1911, on the family farm near Osage, [ the daughter of William Franklin Cummings and Clara Elizabeth (Bird) Cummings.
She married Frank Stanley Tyler. ]**

She is survived by two daughters, Dorothy Counsell, Osage, and Marian Rust, St. Ansgar; one son, William Tyler, Janesville, Wis.; one sister, Martha Haehn, Grand Meadow, Minn.; one brother, Ralph Cummings, Osage; 11 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Clara was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one great-grandson, five brothers, and four sisters.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Dec. 1, 1998]

** Additional information from D.M. Scott 6/29/2010