Submitted by: Brenda Horton

James H. Tyler
James H. Tyler, 84, of 50505 U.S. 31 N., died at 5:45 pm Thursday in Healthwin Hospital after a one year illness. He was a retired steam fitter. Born on Sept. 3, 1897, in Attica, Ind. he lived in South Bend most of his live. On Nov. 26, 1952, in South Bend, he married Millicent Wiltfong. She survives with a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Zernick of Santee, Calif.; two sons, Earl of South Bend and Jack of Eagle, Idaho 17 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Services will be at 1 am Monday in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home, 1201 S. Michigan. Rev. May Lundgren, assistant pastor of the Zion Untied Church of Christ will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Attica. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm Sunday in the funeral home, where masonic services will be conducted at 7 pm. He was a member of Lodge 675 F & AM, and the Plumbers and Steam fitters Union local 172. Memorial contributions may be maed to the St. Joseph County Cancer Society.

Source: The South Bend Tribune, 15 Jan 1982.