From the Daily Oklahoman...
Oklahoman, Wednesday, March 27, 1963; Page: 34
Perle Mesta Kin Mrs. Tyson, Dies
WASHINGTON β
Mrs. George Tyson, sister of Mrs. Perle Mesta, died Tuesday after a long illness.Death came in the Washington, D. C., and penthouse she and her husband shared with
Mrs. Mesta. Mrs. Tyson, the former Marguerite Skirvin, is the sister of William S. Skirvin of Oklahoma City.
She usually was present at parties her sister gave for the great and near-great of the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Mrs. Tyson was said to be a valuable assistant to Mrs. Mesta in arranging endless plans and details of the social whirl in which the sisters moved since they came to Washington in the early 1920's.
Their father was the Oklahoma oil and hotelman, William B. Skirvin. The widow of Robert John Adams, she was married to Tyson, a millionaire Boston businessman, in 1937. The Tysons also kept a home to Newport, R. I. Tyson adopted his wife's children by her first husband. Besides her husband, sister and brother, Mrs. Tyson is survived by a son, William Skirvin Tyson, and a daughter, Harriet Elizabeth (Mrs. Lewis), of Washington.
Private Memorial services will be at Newport.
Oklahoman, Wednesday, March 27, 1963; Page: 34
Perle Mesta Kin Mrs. Tyson, Dies
WASHINGTON β
Mrs. George Tyson, sister of Mrs. Perle Mesta, died Tuesday after a long illness.Death came in the Washington, D. C., and penthouse she and her husband shared with
Mrs. Mesta. Mrs. Tyson, the former Marguerite Skirvin, is the sister of William S. Skirvin of Oklahoma City.
She usually was present at parties her sister gave for the great and near-great of the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Mrs. Tyson was said to be a valuable assistant to Mrs. Mesta in arranging endless plans and details of the social whirl in which the sisters moved since they came to Washington in the early 1920's.
Their father was the Oklahoma oil and hotelman, William B. Skirvin. The widow of Robert John Adams, she was married to Tyson, a millionaire Boston businessman, in 1937. The Tysons also kept a home to Newport, R. I. Tyson adopted his wife's children by her first husband. Besides her husband, sister and brother, Mrs. Tyson is survived by a son, William Skirvin Tyson, and a daughter, Harriet Elizabeth (Mrs. Lewis), of Washington.
Private Memorial services will be at Newport.
From the Daily Oklahoman...
Oklahoman, Wednesday, March 27, 1963; Page: 34
Perle Mesta Kin Mrs. Tyson, Dies
WASHINGTON β
Mrs. George Tyson, sister of Mrs. Perle Mesta, died Tuesday after a long illness.Death came in the Washington, D. C., and penthouse she and her husband shared with
Mrs. Mesta. Mrs. Tyson, the former Marguerite Skirvin, is the sister of William S. Skirvin of Oklahoma City.
She usually was present at parties her sister gave for the great and near-great of the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Mrs. Tyson was said to be a valuable assistant to Mrs. Mesta in arranging endless plans and details of the social whirl in which the sisters moved since they came to Washington in the early 1920's.
Their father was the Oklahoma oil and hotelman, William B. Skirvin. The widow of Robert John Adams, she was married to Tyson, a millionaire Boston businessman, in 1937. The Tysons also kept a home to Newport, R. I. Tyson adopted his wife's children by her first husband. Besides her husband, sister and brother, Mrs. Tyson is survived by a son, William Skirvin Tyson, and a daughter, Harriet Elizabeth (Mrs. Lewis), of Washington.
Private Memorial services will be at Newport.
Oklahoman, Wednesday, March 27, 1963; Page: 34
Perle Mesta Kin Mrs. Tyson, Dies
WASHINGTON β
Mrs. George Tyson, sister of Mrs. Perle Mesta, died Tuesday after a long illness.Death came in the Washington, D. C., and penthouse she and her husband shared with
Mrs. Mesta. Mrs. Tyson, the former Marguerite Skirvin, is the sister of William S. Skirvin of Oklahoma City.
She usually was present at parties her sister gave for the great and near-great of the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Mrs. Tyson was said to be a valuable assistant to Mrs. Mesta in arranging endless plans and details of the social whirl in which the sisters moved since they came to Washington in the early 1920's.
Their father was the Oklahoma oil and hotelman, William B. Skirvin. The widow of Robert John Adams, she was married to Tyson, a millionaire Boston businessman, in 1937. The Tysons also kept a home to Newport, R. I. Tyson adopted his wife's children by her first husband. Besides her husband, sister and brother, Mrs. Tyson is survived by a son, William Skirvin Tyson, and a daughter, Harriet Elizabeth (Mrs. Lewis), of Washington.
Private Memorial services will be at Newport.
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