Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

Dora A. Standley

Dora A. Standley was born in Green county, Ill., Aug 5, 1853, and died Oct. 23, 1904, at the home of her brother, J.B. Standley, 8 miles north east of Cherryvale, Kansas, at the age of 51 years, 2 months and 17 days.
In her girlhood days she was a hard-working girl and was guided by a kind and loving christian mother. Her father moved from Green to Logan county when she was 14 years of age, where she remained until she was 27 years old when she was united in holy matrimony to Robert T. Tyler of Mason City, Ill., by Elder J.M. Haughey, of the Christian church, Nov. 9, 1880. In the spring of 1881 she and her husband moved to Maysville, Mo., where they enjoyed each others happiness and shared each others sorrows until the spring of 1901 when they sold out and moved to Blackwell, Okla., where they resided at the time of her heavenly departure. She was a kind and loving christian mother, being a member of Christian church since 1887. Her entire heart seemed to be given to the interests of her family and none of them were ever absent but what she prayed for the spirit of the Lord to guide them aright. She was a tender hearted mother and wife. Deceased leaves a husband, four children, a mother, four brothers, two sisters and a large number of other relatives and friends. The following is the names of the nearest relatives: R.T. Tyler, husband, age 53; son, R.W. Tyler, age 23; P.R. Tyler, son, age 19; O.T. Tyler, son, age 17; Nancy LuDella Tyler, daughter, age 15; O.P. Standley, Richard Standley, Phillip Standley, at Roseburg, Oregon; J.B. Standley, Cherryvale, Kan., brothers; Mrs. Jennie Danta, Blackwell, Okla., and Mrs. C.B. Ausmus, Lawn, Oregon, sisters; and Mrs. Nancy Standley, of Cherryvale, Kan., mother, Deceased had left Blackwell October 18, 1904, for a visit with her brother, J.B. Standley, of Cherryvale, Kan., and took sick almost immediately after her arrival on October 19. The best medical aid was summoned and an operation was performed and her intestines straightened, whereupon she was relieved of her pain and died easy, maintaining her faith in the Lord to the last and said she was prepared to go.

Good bye, dear mamma, how we loved you,
But dear Jesus knows the best,
So he sent his loving angels,
To take your soul to rest.

When you saw those angels coming,
Then a smile lit up your face,
For you know the loving Savior
Had given you a place.

Where earth's cares were over
And your work on earth was o'er,
Now you have a brighter mansion,
On Jordon's other shore.

If the power to us was given,
To recall your soul to earth,
We would never call you, mother
For you have a brighter berth.

We remember how, when children,
We upon your lap have played,
And you told us to love Jesus,
When we from the right had strayed.

Good bye, darling wife, I love you,
Better than the noonday sun,
And I'll meet you up in heaven
When my work on earth is done.

As a husband and four children,
We will all bid you good bye;
And we'll do our best, dear mamma,
To meet you in the sky.

The passing spirit quickly fled,
Sustained by grace divine;
Oh! may such grace on us be shed,
And make our end, like thine.

R.W. Tyler