Loren is the only child of Ralph and Norma Griffin Pyle.
When he was around 3 the family moved to Tulare County, California where they remained until moving back to Cane Hill, Cedar County, Missouri in 1932.
Loren was a superior football player, lettering all 4 years at Stockton High School. He received an invitation from Coach Don Faurot of Missouri to play football at Mizzou. He didn't accept as it was in the middle of the Great Depression and felt he could not afford to leave home to attend college.
Of course he would later meet Lorene Oldham, who grew up locally and was teaching at a nearby rural grade school. The rest is history, as they married and had 4 children.
Dad was foremost a farmer and a lover of the land. If you traveled with him across the country, it was usually on the less traveled highways as to check out what the farms looked like. A trip from Southwest Missouri to Arizona would take three days because he always wanted to take a different route and see new country. He talked and loved farming.
When he was around 3 the family moved to Tulare County, California where they remained until moving back to Cane Hill, Cedar County, Missouri in 1932.
Loren was a superior football player, lettering all 4 years at Stockton High School. He received an invitation from Coach Don Faurot of Missouri to play football at Mizzou. He didn't accept as it was in the middle of the Great Depression and felt he could not afford to leave home to attend college.
Of course he would later meet Lorene Oldham, who grew up locally and was teaching at a nearby rural grade school. The rest is history, as they married and had 4 children.
Dad was foremost a farmer and a lover of the land. If you traveled with him across the country, it was usually on the less traveled highways as to check out what the farms looked like. A trip from Southwest Missouri to Arizona would take three days because he always wanted to take a different route and see new country. He talked and loved farming.
Loren is the only child of Ralph and Norma Griffin Pyle.
When he was around 3 the family moved to Tulare County, California where they remained until moving back to Cane Hill, Cedar County, Missouri in 1932.
Loren was a superior football player, lettering all 4 years at Stockton High School. He received an invitation from Coach Don Faurot of Missouri to play football at Mizzou. He didn't accept as it was in the middle of the Great Depression and felt he could not afford to leave home to attend college.
Of course he would later meet Lorene Oldham, who grew up locally and was teaching at a nearby rural grade school. The rest is history, as they married and had 4 children.
Dad was foremost a farmer and a lover of the land. If you traveled with him across the country, it was usually on the less traveled highways as to check out what the farms looked like. A trip from Southwest Missouri to Arizona would take three days because he always wanted to take a different route and see new country. He talked and loved farming.
When he was around 3 the family moved to Tulare County, California where they remained until moving back to Cane Hill, Cedar County, Missouri in 1932.
Loren was a superior football player, lettering all 4 years at Stockton High School. He received an invitation from Coach Don Faurot of Missouri to play football at Mizzou. He didn't accept as it was in the middle of the Great Depression and felt he could not afford to leave home to attend college.
Of course he would later meet Lorene Oldham, who grew up locally and was teaching at a nearby rural grade school. The rest is history, as they married and had 4 children.
Dad was foremost a farmer and a lover of the land. If you traveled with him across the country, it was usually on the less traveled highways as to check out what the farms looked like. A trip from Southwest Missouri to Arizona would take three days because he always wanted to take a different route and see new country. He talked and loved farming.
