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Florence Muriel Stringfellow was born to John Irving Stringfellow and Ida Payne in 1903.  She graduated from the Oakdale High School and then attended Wayne State College and Nebraska Weslyan University.  She returned to Oakdale to teach first in county schools south of Oakdale and then in Neligh.  She married Gerrit V. Tyler, a newspaper man of Ainsworth.  They published “The Spalding Enterprise”.  Their four children: Lois Marian married William Ralph Slaughter, four children; Gerrit Van married Margaret Schmer and they had five children;  Phyllis Jean married Robert Gaston, two children; and Robert Tyler married Katherine Vondra, three children.  Muriel died in 1944. 

Source Unknown: Originally submitted for this website in Mar 2008