Obituary: Gail H. Tyler, 87, of Groton Long Point

Groton, CT - (From Mystic Funeral Home) Gail Hobert Tyler, 87, of Groton Long Point passed away peacefully in the early hours of May 17,2020. Gail was born and raised in Holyoke, MA, the oldest child of Roland and Clare Manning Hobert of Hobert Funeral Home.

Gail attended Highland School, John J Lynch Junior High and graduated from Holyoke High in 1950. She married Grant Tyler and after a stint in Clarksville, TN moved to West Hartford where they raised their enormous family of ten children. She was the loving matriarch to an every-expanding family that has grown to include twenty grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren, each one loved and attended to by a doting, supportive and every present Grand-Ma-Ma who attended religious, academic, athletic, musical and social events with an astounding consistency. Every single one of them knew that every birthday would be also highlighted by a card and note in the most beautiful handwriting and a dollar bill to mark the passage of another year. In the late 1980’s Gail moved to Bloomfield, proof that “Happy Acres” travelled with her as a state of mind. She had a twenty-five year career as Director of Senior Services at Interfaith Homes in Bloomfield.

She retired and moved to Groton Long Point where she settled gracefully into the embrace of the three generations of descendants, both direct and extended, that she cared for with a gentle wisdom that a life well-lived and an unshakeable faith graced her with. She brought perspective to the most difficult situations that allowed friends and family to be renewed with hope and to return to life knowing they were fully supported. Gail was a blessing to everyone who came into her presence. She was predeceased by son Patrick Tyler, brothers James P and Jack Hobert, sisters Margo Letellier and Susan Tremble, brother-in-law Andy Noel, and son-in-law, John Gallagher.

She is survived by children, Gay Gallagher, Kathleen Tyler, Grant Tyler Jr. Michael and Patricia Tyler, Marie and Richard (Kip) Wiley, Thomas Tyler, Suzanne and Gregory Scheurer, Daniel Tyler and Matthew and Gina Tyler, twenty grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren. Also left behind are sister-in-law Rosalie Hobert, sister Clare (Bunny) Noel, brother-in-law James Tremble, brother Patrick and Judith Hobert, sister Mary and John Auth, brother Jerome T. Hobert & sister-in-law Fern Tyler Steiger; and scores of nieces and nephews.

Funeral arrangements are private and a celebration of life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Smilow Cancer Center at Yale New Haven Hospital or ARC of CT.