Lourdes Portugal Tyler

A Funeral Liturgy for Lourdes Portugal Tyler, of Easton, MD, formerly of Trappe, MD, will be celebrated at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church of Easton, MD, on Tuesday, April 11, 2000, at 1 P.M. Mrs. Tyler died at Memorial Hospital in Easton on Saturday, April 8, 2000. She was 66. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, on February 9, 1934, she was the daughter of the late Pedro Portugal and Doris deLyra Collaso. After graduating from the Colegio do Sagrado Coracao de Jesus in Portugal, she attended a secretarial school before coming to the United States where she attended and graduated from the Mid Wood High School in New York. She then moved back to Portugal where she worked as a secretary to the Shape Mission to Portugal in conjunction with the Military Assistance Advisory Group of Portugal. She returned to the United States where she worked at the Portuguese Tourist Office in New York before returning briefly to Portugal to be married and then returning to the United States to work with the Portuguese Tourist Agency. In August of 1964, she and her family moved to Talbot County where, in later years, she worked as a babysitter, companion and nanny. A member of Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church; she was also a member of the Women''s Guild of the church and AARP. Her husband, Otis Cranston Tyler, a Maryland State Trooper whom she married in Portugal on August 2, 1963, died in February of 1984. Mrs. Tyler is survived by a son, Peter Tyler and his wife, Teresa of Salisbury; two daughters, Lt. Maria Wilke, USNR, of Charlotte, NC, and Lourdes Massey and her husband, Will of Easton; one sister and two brothers, all of Portugal; six grandchildren, Cranston and Lindsey Tyler, Garrett and Lauren Wilke and Hunter and Tyler Massey; and a special young man, Max Fry, to whom she was a nanny for many years. Friends may call at the Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home in Easton on Monday, April 10, from 7 - 9 P.M. Burial will be at Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, MD. Memorial donations may be made to the Talbot Hospice Foundation, 586 Cynwood Drive, Easton, MD 21601 or to St. Jude''s Childrens Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.