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Rev Albert Ray Tyl

17 Oct 1929 – 25 Sep 2005

Birth17 Oct 1929
Death25 Sep 2005
CemeteryHoly Cross Cemetery
Texarkana , Bowie County , Texas , USA
Added byEmily Raines on 19 Jun 2024
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Albert Roy Tyl, 75, a Roman Catholic priest, died Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005. Con-celebrated Mass of Christian Burial: 9:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Patrick Cathedral. The Most Rev. Kevin W. Vann, bishop of Fort Worth, will be the principal celebrant and the Rev. Stephen Duyka, cousin of Father Tyl, will be the homilist. Visitation: Father Tyl's body will lie in state 1 p.m. Tuesday to 5 p.m. Wednesday at Thompson's Harveson & Cole Funeral Home. There will be a welcoming of the body at 6 p.m. Wednesday at St. Patrick Cathedral, where a vigil service will be conducted at 7 p.m. Monsignor Hubert Neu will officiate. Father Tyl will be placed in state at 4 p.m. Thursday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Texarkana, where Monsignor Gerard Priest will conduct a vigil service. Interment: Holy Cross Cemetery in Texarkana. His fellow priests will serve as pallbearers. Memorials: His memory may be honored with a gift to the Seminary Fund of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, 800 W. Loop 820 S., Fort Worth, Texas 76108. The Rev. Tyl was born Oct. 17, 1929, the eighth of 11 children of the late Filomena Duyka and Frank Tyl. He attended the Texarkana public schools and graduated from high school in 1947. Upon graduation, he entered St. John's Seminary in San Antonio and finished his theological studies at Assumption Seminary in Dallas in April 1954. He was ordained a priest April 19, 1954, by Bishop Thomas K. Gorman at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Dallas. He served as assistant pastor of Good Shepherd Parish in Garland, Immaculate Conception in Tyler and St. Thomas Aquinas in Dallas, and as pastor of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Decatur. In March 1969, he was incardinated in the Fort Worth Diocese. There he served as pastor of St. Rita in Fort Worth, St. Matthew in Arlington, St. John the Apostle and St. Paul the Apostle in Fort Worth. He was assistant pastor at St. Michael in Bedford and St. Patrick Cathedral. He was chairman of the Liturgical Commission and the Emmaus Program, designed for priestly renewal, and also served on the Diocesan Personnel Board and the Diocesan Building Commission. Father Tyl was a kind, compassionate priest, loved by everyone. His greatest love was extended to his family, his parishioners and his fellow priests. He was also a great supporter of the Permanent Deacon Formation Program. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brothers, Jerry, Emil, Frankie and Robert Tyl. Survivors: His sisters, Helen Bruce, Christine Hobbs, Julia Zamora and her husband, Fred, Marguerite Zamorra, Katherine Bush and her husband, James, and Evelyn Horne and her husband, Bill; and nieces and nephews

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