Rebecca Jean Tyler

The funeral service will be livestreamed.

This link will go live 5 to 10 minutes prior to the memorial service

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Rebecca Jean (Wasson) Tyler, age 78, of Goshen, died at home on July, 9, 2025.  She was born on November 18, 1946 to Ner William and Irene Vontania (Smith) Wasson.

On June 7, 1969 she married Terry Joseph Tyler in Craigville, Indiana. He survives along with sons, Jeremy (Jill) Tyler, (grandchildren: Blake and Ava Tyler) Wakarusa, Indiana; Jeffrey (Traci) Tyler, (grandchildren: Cora, Lincoln, Claire and Elise Tyler) Lee’s Summit, Missouri; and daughter Kelsey (Ryan) Gernand, (grandchildren: Sophie, Oliver, and Libby Gernand) Yorktown, Indiana.

Also surviving are sisters, Janet Johnson of Lafayette, Indiana; Rosemary (Terry) Renbarger of The Villages, Florida; Debra (Donald) Lockwood of Ossian, Indiana; Merianne DeWitt of Scottsburg, Indiana; and brother-in-law, David Beeler of Arizona. As well as nine nephews and twelve nieces.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Jenny Rebecca and by her brothers-in-law, Larry Dewitt and Richard Johnson, her sister, Suzanne Beeler.

Rebecca graduated from Lancaster High School in Wells County, Indiana and Ball State University with a teaching degree in Home Economics. She taught at the Frankton, Indiana High School and the Craig Jr. High School in Lawrence Township in Indianapolis. She also taught Pre-school for several years in West Chester, Ohio and in the Grace Point Church in Nappanee, Indiana. She was also a teacher's aid for Nappanee Elementary School for many years.

Besides wonderfully fulfilling what she discerned as a call to be a wife and mother, she enjoyed quilting and reading.

Family and friends may call Monday, July 14, 2025  from 10 a.m. until the12:00 p.m. funeral service at the Yoder – Culp Funeral Home at 1911 South Main St in Goshen.

Cremation and burial will follow at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, the family strongly REQUESTS that memorial contributions be given to Center for Hospice Care, Grace Point Church or Warsaw Evangelical Presbyterian Church.