Emery Bruce Pyle ’37

Bruce was born in Kansas City, Mo., and attended John Burroughs School, where he played football, baseball, and soccer and was on the board of the school paper. At Princeton he majored in economics and SPIA. He played 150-pound football and was a member of the Cliosophic Society and Tower Club.

After Princeton he attended Harvard Law School for a year. Following that, he returned to Kansas and began orchard and general farming. He managed the family orchards until they were sold, and he moved to Lawrence to work with a commercial fertilizer plant. Eventually, after many business mergers, Bruce moved to Dallas in 1965 and worked for the Wiener Lumber Co. in a supervisory position for production and shipping credit.

Bruce married Lucille Obert 68 years ago. She survives him, as do their three sons, one daughter, four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Bruce’s brother, Frank Pyle ’42, predeceased him. To his family and friends, the class extends loving sympathy and fond remembrances of a loyal classmate.