Born: 1943
Died: August 23, 1964
Married:
Children:
Terry Tyler was a member of The Persuaders.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, August 24, 1964
21-Year-Old Musician Killed in Auto Crash
Saranac Lake was saddened by the death of popular 21-year-old Terry Lee Tyler of 15 Riverside Drive early Sunday. The musician was returning from a Plattsburgh engagement when his car struck a tree about 1:45 a. m. on Route 3, 400 feet west of the Farrell Road intersection. Wet road conditions were presumed partly responsible.
The vehicle, a 1961 Plymouth station wagon, left the right side of the road on a gradual right curve, travelled about 180 feet and struck a tree. He was alone. Cadyville state police received word of the accident from James Toolan who called from Redford after discovering the partly demolished auto.
State Police in turn summoned the Dannemora Rescue Squad to the scene and Tyler was extricated from the wreckage and rushed by ambulance to the Physician's Hospital in Plattsburgh where he died at 5:30 a. m.
Dr. Dana A. Weeks, coroner, said an inquest would be scheduled. Mr. Tyler was a drummer in "The Persuaders," a popular dance band which had filled engagements in Plattsburgh for a year and a half at Brodies Restaurant near the Air Base.
The Clinton County engagement was the last of the season for the five-piece combo which had skyrocketed to North Country fame over the past year.
Other members of the group were said to have stayed in Plattsburgh after the long hours of playing rather than drive back to Saranac Lake in a tired condition.
Mr. Tyler was a native of Saranac Lake , the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Tyler of 21 William Street. He was a graduate of the class of 1961 Saranac Lake High School, and an Eagle Scout. He had been an Adirondack Enterprise newsboy and had worked in the paper's mailing department. Surviving are his wife, Susan, and three children, his parents and two sisters, (see obituary page)
He had been employed by Currier Press in Saranac Lake for three-and-a-half years and was to have started a new job with Nadon Atlantic Service Station today. He was a member of the Saranac Lake Fire Department Rescue Squad and a former diver in the Scuba underwater unit.
