Tyler Benjamin Warren (1886-1941)

WARREN, BRISTOW, HOUSTON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/23/2024 at 12:56:31

From Nevada Evening Journal May 29, 1941 (page 1)

T. B. Warren Dies at Home Here as School Year Closes

Tyler B. Warren, 55, for over 20 years superintendent of the Nevada schools, died at his home at 837 Seventh street at 10 p.m. Wednesday after an illness dating back about a year. Uremic poisoning resulting from diabetes and other complications was the cause of death.

Death came during the alumni ceremonies following the twenty-first year of his connection with the Nevada schools.

Funeral rites ell be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the Church of Christ, with his pastor, Rev. C. V. Pence, in charge, assisted by Dr. J. O. Simon of Memoria Lutheran church and Rev. Jos. M. Kennedy of Central Presbyterian church. Following the services here, the body will be taken to Pleasantville for burial. The body, now at the Morfoot Funeral Home, will lie in state at the church from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m., but the casket will not be opened after services.

Mr. Warren, who came to Nevada for the school year which opened in the fall of 1920, had served continuously since that time and was re-elected for this twenty-first year which opened last autumn.

While he suffered a nervous breakdown and other complications shortly after the close of school last year, he rallied and apparently regained his strength. He opened the school year which was just closing when he was called by death, but after a few weeks suffered another attack and has since been confined to his home.

During the over 20 years of his residence in Nevada, he was connected with many activities and had become a real force in the educational, religious and civic affairs of the community. While keeping affairs of the school well in hand, he had also found time to keep in touch with educational affairs of the county and state, being active in the Story County School Administrators club and of the state and national associations. He served during 1935 as president of the Central division of the Iowa State Teachers Association.

He was an active member of the Nevada Church of Christ, having served as a member of the church board and also as treasurer. He was a member of the Nevada Rotary club, the Masonic Lodge and also had been an active and useful member of the Nevada Community club.

He was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, across the strait of Northumberland from New Brunswick, a son of J. A. and Sarah Houston-Warren, April 21, 1886. He gained his preliminary education there and graduated from Prince of Wales college. He came to the United State as aa young man and became a student and later an instructor at Drake University in Des Moines. He received his B. A. degree from Drake in 1911 and his M. A. degree in 1912.

He was united in marriage to Gladys Bristow at Pleasantville in 1919, during the five-year period that he served as superintendent of the schools there.

He was elected superintendent of the Nevada schools in the spring of 1920 and had been to his twenty-first year about a year ago.

He leaves his wife, Gladys, and an only son, Ben Warren, now a student at the University of Iowa, as well as members of the family on the island of his birth. One brother is living in Boston, Mass., and two sisters and five brothers in Canada.

The widowed mother of Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Bristow of Pleasantville, had been with her daughter much of the time, following the death of Mr. Bristow on June 28, last year.

In his many years of connection with the local schools, Mr. Warren had been a persistent and untiring worker not only in educational work, but was always able to find time to do his part in all church and civic activities of the community and his personal touch has been felt in many ways in the community.

Including the class of 47 which graduated this week and which graduated this week and which started out in the senior year under Mr. Warren, 808 young people have graduated under him and each and every one of those young people will have the feeling of a personal loss in his passing.