Dola Schild Tylor, 100, of Winchester, Virginia, died Tuesday, November 10, in Shenandoah Valley Westminster Canterbury.

Mrs. Tylor was born February 5, 1915 in Gruetli, Tennessee, one of the original Swiss colonies, the daughter of the late Christian Peter and Ethel Tate Schild. A music teacher actually named Dola by combining two notes of the musical scale !

Dola began her education in a one room schoolhouse in Grundy County Tennessee and she completed her education some 37 years later graduating from the University of Tennessee in 1958 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting. She held various positions over the years but spent the longest period of her working career as a draftsman with the Army Corp of Engineers in Okinawa, Japan where she met her future husband. She married Richard (Dick) R. Tylor in 1949 in Okinawa, Japan.

Dick and Dola eventually transferred to Winchester, Virginia with the Army Corp of Engineers where Mr. Tylor continued to work as an engineer and Mrs. Tylor retired and began a long career of volunteer work giving her time to various organizations including the Handley Regional Library Archives. In fact she wrote a book “Winchester, Virginia Abstracts of Wills” highlighting Wills in Winchester and Frederick County. Dola enjoyed writing and studying poetry, gardening, birding, the outdoors (in summer!), and research of any kind (especially in the area of genealogy). She also published a book of her poems.

In her later years she loved time spent in the sun or by the fireplace reading. Her quick wit was enjoyed by friends, both new and old. She will be dearly missed by anyone who had the privilege of meeting her.

She is survived by her brother, Roy Christian Schild (Hideko Kinjo) of Berryville, Virginia.

Interment will be at 11:00 am, Friday, November 13^th, in Hamilton Memorial Gardens, Hixson, Tennessee, where her beloved husband Dick was buried in 2011. A Memorial Service will be conducted at Westminster Canterbury at 3:00 p.m., Monday, November 16^th.

In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in Dola’s memory to Handley Regional Library Archives Room, 100 W. Piccadilly Street, Winchester, Virginia 22601 or to the Shenandoah Valley Westminster Canterbury Fellowship Fund, 300 Westminster Canterbury Drive, Winchester, Virginia 22603.