Kenneth Tyler

February 20, 1929 Spokane Chronicle

Piano recital with Reardan Students

Kenneth Tyler took piano lessons from Mrs. Frank Rowland or May C. Herboth. He would have been about eleven years old. Interestingly this concert also featured Jack Zeimantz, Gus Magnuson (age about 8), Elise Aldrich (the daughter of Harl Aldrich, Sr., the school superintendent, 1933 RHS graduate and sister of Harl and Lynn who eventually played piano competitively), Evelyn Plaster, Billy Boy Colville and Helen Mahrt sister of Roger Mahrt.

May 26, 1936

Members of the class of 1936: Margaret Albert, Marguerite Arp, Mable Brooks, Marjorie Brooks, Inez Day, Ethelmae Ekins, Audrey Garber, Glen Garber, Robert Gralapp, Margaret Joslin, Martha Joslin, Maida Kelly, Roy Mann, Gilbert Manor, Marguerite McGill, Mildred McLaughlin, Helen Merrill, John Owens, Richard Paul, Evelyn Plaster, Kenneth Reynolds, Anna Schumer, Kenneth Tyler, Loren Von Lehe, Ralph Williams, Donald Woods.

Kenneth Tyler memorialized at the Memorial Wall at Asan Bay Overlook, Guam

Kenneth Tyler Memorial at Byron, MI (near his sister)

September 28, 1944 Davenport Times-Tribune

Kenneth Tyler Killed in Action

Friends here have received word of the death of Cpl. Kenneth Tyler, killed in action during the invasion of Guam on July 22. Cpl. Tyler was with a marine division and enlisted soon after Pearl Harbor.

[Kenneth Frank Tyler son of William Henry Tyler Sr. (1856-1936) and Mrs. Eugene (Elizabeth Hopper White Tyler) Redfern (1889-1939) of Walla Walla formerly of Reardan. He graduated from Reardan High School in 1936. He enlisted in the marine corps shortly after Pearl Harbor and became a member of the 12th Marine Regiment 3d Marine Division and was sent overseas in February 1942 with only seven weeks of training. He fought in the Bouganville campaign (November 1943 through August 1944). He was killed during the invasion of Guam (Second Battle of Guam) July 21 through August 10, 1944. He is memorialized at the Memorial Wall at Asan Bay overlook in Guam.]