Viola Westbrook Tyndall


Goldsboro, NC -- Mrs. Viola Westbrook Tyndall, 96, died Saturday at Kitty Askins Hospice Center. She was born in Wayne County on November 13, 1907 to Lovett Westbrook and Emily Baker Westbrook. She was married 45 years to the late Hubert Haywood Tyndall. She was a member of Antioch Original Free Will Baptist Church and a volunteer with the Retired Volunteers Program for 20 years.

Funeral services will be Monday night at 7 PM at Seymour Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Otis Hamm officiating. Interment will be 11 A. M. Tuesday at Wayne Memorial Park.

She is survived by four children: Dr. H. Durwood Tyndall and wife Catherine of Goldsboro, Gladys Tyndall Garris and husband Melvin of La Grange, Doris Tyndall Lancaster of Pikeville, and Carl H. Tyndall and wife Diane of Roseboro; sixteen grand children, Jimmy Garris and wife Sandra, Gerald Garris and wife Peggy, Dianne Garris Cianfarra, Michael Lancaster and wife Gail, Lynn Lancaster Britt and husband William, Robin Lancaster Potter and husband Rhet, Hope Tyndall Hancock and husband Gerry, Sissy Tyndall Newell and husband Howard, Cathy Tyndall Hollowell and husband Alan, Prudence Tyndall Frederick and husband Ron, H. Durwood Tyndall, Jr. and wife Kristen, C. Haywood Tyndall, Jr. and wife Teresa, Pamela Tyndall Matthews and husband Lloyd, Michael A. Tyndall, Jason Leonardo and wife Wendy, and Kevin Whitley and wife Cindy. She had twenty-five great-grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren and one sister Alma Westbrook Herring of Mt. Olive.

She was preceded in death by three brothers; John Westbrook, Claude Westbrook, and Robert Westbrook and five sisters; Lula W. Jones, Lona W. Bass, Bessie W. Smith, Sudie W. Fields, Mary W. Spence and by one son-in-law, Jimmy Lancaster.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be made to Antioch Original Free Will Baptist Church, 1718 Antioch Church Rd., Pikeville, NC 27863 or to the Kitty Askins Hospice Center, 107 Handley Park Court, Goldsboro, N. C. 27534.

The family will receive friends following the service and at other times at the home of her daughter, Doris Lancaster, 6233 Wayne Memorial Drive, Goldsboro.