MRS. ROY PYLE DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME
Was Seated at Sewing Machine When She Fell to the Floor Dead
Mrs. Lila Brown Pyle, the wife of J. Roy Pyle, manager of the shoe department of the Kingsport Stores, died suddenly shortly before 5 o'clock Friday afternoon while seated at her sewing machine at her home in the Shelby apartments.
She had been in good health apparently and hardly a moment before had spoken through the window with a neighbor in her usual cheerful manner. Then she fell to the floor. When friends found her a moment later she was dead. Heart trouble, which was unknown to her family and of which she had never complained, is attributed as the cause of her death.
Hundreds of people crowded the Broad Street Methodist church at her funeral Sunday afternoon, all them her friends who had come to pay tribute to her memory. The floral offerings were the most numerous, it is said, ever seen at a funeral here before.
The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. E.O. Woodyard, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which congregation she became a member on her marriage five years ago. The body was buried in the new cemetery.
Mrs. Pyle, who before her marriage was Miss Lila Brown, the daughter of B.F. Brown, of Wytheville, was 28 years of age and had lived in Kingsport seven years. She was active in the work of her church and had endeared herself to all her friends by her unfailing cheerfulness and friendliness.
Besides her husband, she is survived by two children, Thomas, aged three years, and Catherine aged eight months; and her father, B.F. Brown, of Wytheville.
Mr. Brown and his wife, Lacy F. Clinebell, of Roanoke, Maiden Wyrick, of Wytheville and the Felts brothers, of Roanoke, cousins, were among the out-of-town persons who attended the funeral services.
The Kingsport Times; Kingsport, Tennessee.
June 8, 1920; Page One.
Was Seated at Sewing Machine When She Fell to the Floor Dead
Mrs. Lila Brown Pyle, the wife of J. Roy Pyle, manager of the shoe department of the Kingsport Stores, died suddenly shortly before 5 o'clock Friday afternoon while seated at her sewing machine at her home in the Shelby apartments.
She had been in good health apparently and hardly a moment before had spoken through the window with a neighbor in her usual cheerful manner. Then she fell to the floor. When friends found her a moment later she was dead. Heart trouble, which was unknown to her family and of which she had never complained, is attributed as the cause of her death.
Hundreds of people crowded the Broad Street Methodist church at her funeral Sunday afternoon, all them her friends who had come to pay tribute to her memory. The floral offerings were the most numerous, it is said, ever seen at a funeral here before.
The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. E.O. Woodyard, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which congregation she became a member on her marriage five years ago. The body was buried in the new cemetery.
Mrs. Pyle, who before her marriage was Miss Lila Brown, the daughter of B.F. Brown, of Wytheville, was 28 years of age and had lived in Kingsport seven years. She was active in the work of her church and had endeared herself to all her friends by her unfailing cheerfulness and friendliness.
Besides her husband, she is survived by two children, Thomas, aged three years, and Catherine aged eight months; and her father, B.F. Brown, of Wytheville.
Mr. Brown and his wife, Lacy F. Clinebell, of Roanoke, Maiden Wyrick, of Wytheville and the Felts brothers, of Roanoke, cousins, were among the out-of-town persons who attended the funeral services.
The Kingsport Times; Kingsport, Tennessee.
June 8, 1920; Page One.
MRS. ROY PYLE DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME
Was Seated at Sewing Machine When She Fell to the Floor Dead
Mrs. Lila Brown Pyle, the wife of J. Roy Pyle, manager of the shoe department of the Kingsport Stores, died suddenly shortly before 5 o'clock Friday afternoon while seated at her sewing machine at her home in the Shelby apartments.
She had been in good health apparently and hardly a moment before had spoken through the window with a neighbor in her usual cheerful manner. Then she fell to the floor. When friends found her a moment later she was dead. Heart trouble, which was unknown to her family and of which she had never complained, is attributed as the cause of her death.
Hundreds of people crowded the Broad Street Methodist church at her funeral Sunday afternoon, all them her friends who had come to pay tribute to her memory. The floral offerings were the most numerous, it is said, ever seen at a funeral here before.
The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. E.O. Woodyard, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which congregation she became a member on her marriage five years ago. The body was buried in the new cemetery.
Mrs. Pyle, who before her marriage was Miss Lila Brown, the daughter of B.F. Brown, of Wytheville, was 28 years of age and had lived in Kingsport seven years. She was active in the work of her church and had endeared herself to all her friends by her unfailing cheerfulness and friendliness.
Besides her husband, she is survived by two children, Thomas, aged three years, and Catherine aged eight months; and her father, B.F. Brown, of Wytheville.
Mr. Brown and his wife, Lacy F. Clinebell, of Roanoke, Maiden Wyrick, of Wytheville and the Felts brothers, of Roanoke, cousins, were among the out-of-town persons who attended the funeral services.
The Kingsport Times; Kingsport, Tennessee.
June 8, 1920; Page One.
Was Seated at Sewing Machine When She Fell to the Floor Dead
Mrs. Lila Brown Pyle, the wife of J. Roy Pyle, manager of the shoe department of the Kingsport Stores, died suddenly shortly before 5 o'clock Friday afternoon while seated at her sewing machine at her home in the Shelby apartments.
She had been in good health apparently and hardly a moment before had spoken through the window with a neighbor in her usual cheerful manner. Then she fell to the floor. When friends found her a moment later she was dead. Heart trouble, which was unknown to her family and of which she had never complained, is attributed as the cause of her death.
Hundreds of people crowded the Broad Street Methodist church at her funeral Sunday afternoon, all them her friends who had come to pay tribute to her memory. The floral offerings were the most numerous, it is said, ever seen at a funeral here before.
The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. E.O. Woodyard, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which congregation she became a member on her marriage five years ago. The body was buried in the new cemetery.
Mrs. Pyle, who before her marriage was Miss Lila Brown, the daughter of B.F. Brown, of Wytheville, was 28 years of age and had lived in Kingsport seven years. She was active in the work of her church and had endeared herself to all her friends by her unfailing cheerfulness and friendliness.
Besides her husband, she is survived by two children, Thomas, aged three years, and Catherine aged eight months; and her father, B.F. Brown, of Wytheville.
Mr. Brown and his wife, Lacy F. Clinebell, of Roanoke, Maiden Wyrick, of Wytheville and the Felts brothers, of Roanoke, cousins, were among the out-of-town persons who attended the funeral services.
The Kingsport Times; Kingsport, Tennessee.
June 8, 1920; Page One.
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