Dorothea Wright Pyle died at Atoka Memorial Hospital on November 11, 2004.
Born on October 24, 1908, in Altus, Oklahoma, she was the third child of Walter
B. Wright and Nona Russell Wright. Mrs. Pyle attended the University of
Oklahoma, where she was a member of the Chi Omega sorority; upon leaving the
university, she taught the second grade in Altus until her marriage to Dr. Oscar
Snow Pyle of Elmer, Oklahoma, in 1931. Dr. and Mrs. Pyle settled in Chickasha
in 1934. They had two sons, Douglas Craig and David Snow (1941 - 1964). Mrs.
Pyle was a longtime parishioner of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, where she
served on the Altar Guild during the 1960s and 1970s. She was a charter member of
the Chickasha chapter of P.E.O., and belonged to the Huguenot Society of
America. She is survived by her son Douglas, of Daisy, Oklahoma, two
grandchildren, David Holmes Pyle, of Tulsa, and Emily Alexandra Pyle, of Austin, Texas;
and by a nephew, Dr. Lynn B. Roberts of Stillwater.
