TULSA — Barbara (Scott) Tyler Hoover passed peacefully Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after a brave, prolonged battle with Alzheimer’s. She was a 12-year resident of Legend at Tulsa Hills Memory Care.
She was born June 6, 1934, in Dennis.
She married Jerry Tyler on May 30, 1953, and together they had six children, Debbie Ward of Tulsa; Becky (Harry) Bisel of Overland Park; Lori (Bob) Howard of Tulsa; Scott Tyler of Parsons, who passed in 2013; Melissa (Paul) Abitz of Owasso, Oklahoma; and Kregg (Kim) Tyler of Tulsa. Jerry preceded her in death in 1997. Besides her children, she is also survived by 10 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Barbara married Jerry Hoover on April 13, 1984. Before moving to Tulsa that same year, she was a long-time employee of TecTank in Parsons. In Tulsa, Barbara was employed by Travel Designs and Jostens Graduate Services for many years before her retirement in 2010. She and Jerry were both very active in the Asbury United Methodist Church. Jerry passed away in April 2013 after 29 years of marriage.
She loved and treasured her family, who grieve her passing but who also celebrate that her mind and body are once again whole. Her family loves her deeply and have so many ways to describe her: She was beautiful inside and out.
She was a pillar of strength, capable, a hard worker, determined, tenacious and a trooper that never complained.
She was outgoing, friendly and never knew a stranger.
She was loving, caring, kind-hearted, bubbly and chose a halffull mentality.
She was funny.
She had an engaging smile; a complexion younger than her years; and hair that would cause people to stop her on the street to compliment her.
She would feed anyone – something passed on from her mother. We were all better having Barbara in our lives and have so many cherished memories to carry with us.
The service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 24, at the Carson- Wall Funeral Home with Pastor Lewis O. Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Dennis. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until service time on Thursday. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the Alzheimer’s Association to continue research to halt this tragic disease, and these may be left at or mailed to the funeral home, 112 N. 26th St., P.O. Box 942, Parsons, KS, 67357. Leave online condolences at www.wallfuneralservices.com.
Barbara’s legacy will also live on with the Barbara E. Hoover Act, which was passed in 2020 in Oklahoma. This allows family members to place cameras in assisted living centers and memory centers so they can monitor their loved one’s care when they can’t be there. Other states are now structuring their proposed legislation after the Oklahoma act.
