MARGARET ELIZABETH NANCE TYLER
May 21, 1921-April 11, 2015
Visitation: 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, Rollins Funeral Home, Platte City. Service: 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 15, funeral home. Interment: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Margaret Elizabeth Nance Tyler, 93, Kansas City, Missouri, passed away Saturday, April 11, 2015, at New Mark Care Center. She was born in Stockton, Missouri, May 21, 1921, to Charles Claiborne and Mary Etta (Hartley) Nance.
She graduated Stockton High School in 1939, and pursued her education in 1940 at Draughn’s Business School in Springfield. She married James L. Tyler Jr. in Fulton, Missouri, Oct. 20, 1941, and from their union came four children: Janet Kay, Nance Elizabeth, James L. III and Daniel Joseph Tyler. She enjoyed traveling, fishing, painting, tending her flowers and all types of music. Margaret also was an avid ham radio operator, receiving her operator’s license and call sign of WBOJVQ in 1969, and was active for many years in local ham radio clubs and activities. Her pleasant demeanor and sense of humor endeared her to scores of friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, James L. Tyler Jr.; her brother, Charles Hartley Nance of Jefferson City; her daughter, Janet Kay Tyler Wyller; and two grandsons, Grover Howard Mudd and Charlie Allen Mudd.
Survivors include a daughter, Nance Elizabeth Koon of Kansas City; two sons, James L. Tyler of Weston and Daniel J. Tyler of Kansas City; and four grandchildren, James Ketchum of Port Charlotte, Florida, Debora Schauer of Flagstaff, Arizona, and Jeffrey Steudler and Kathryn Tyler from Kansas City.
A visitation will be from 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at Rollins Funeral Home in Platte City, Missouri. Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 15, at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The family suggests contributions be given to Crossroads Hospice. Arrangements are by Rollins Funeral Home, Platte City, (816) 858-2129, www.rollinsfuneralhome.net.
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