Timothy John Tyler

Timothy J. Tyler of Plymouth, New Hampshire passed away after a lengthy illness on Thursday, August 21,2025. He was the son of Robert and Gertrude Tyler.

Tim was born in Leominster, Massachusetts and attended Leominster schools through his junior year of high school. He was a member of the Leominster High School tennis team. His senior year his family moved to Westminster, Massachusetts. He attended Oakmont Regional High School and was a member of the Oakmont Regional varsity basketball team. He attended Fitchburg State College and received his degree in Elementary Education in 1973. He received his graduate degree at Plymouth State University in Public School Administration and Supervision in 1984.

Tim and his family spent well over thirty-years in Plymouth, New Hampshire and the White Mountain Region of New Hampshire. They spent many hours as a family camping, hiking, and biking in the White Mountain Region as well as the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Acadia area of the Maine Coast. They had many trips in their RV and travel trailer and always took the family dogs Aerie, Oliver, Jake, and Piper.

Most of his professional career was spent in New Hampshire holding teaching and administrative educational positions including four years at the 6th Grade Annex in Salem, New Hampshire. He served as Vice President of the Salem Education Association. He accepted the Principalship of the Thornton Central School in 1977, he was one of the youngest principals in New Hampshire at twenty-six years old. He accomplished much in his sixteen-year tenure including being nominated elementary principal of the year. His unique Student-centered Mock New Hampshire Primary was featured twice on national newscasts on CBS and ABC. He served as the commissioner of the Plymouth, New Hampshire Area Pemi-Baker Athletic League. He also coached Thornton Central School to the Pemi Baker Flag Football titles in 1981 and 1982. He oversaw a $1.38 million dollar facility addition in 1988 at the Thornton Central School. He contracted multiple high school bands to march in Thornton’s Old Home Day and Bicentennial Parade which included performing bands from four New England states. During his later years he was elected as a Selectman and Town Clerk in Thornton and was a member of the Thornton Beautification Committee. He held various other positions including Principal of the Pittsfield, New Hampshire Elementary School, Business Administrator of the Newfound Regional School District in Bristol, New Hampshire, Director of the Hunter School in Rumney, New Hampshire and interim school principalships in Holderness, New Hampshire and Lunenburg, Vermont. He spent ten years in financial insurance services as an Account Executive for the Horace Mann Companies, the nation’s largest insurer of educators. He announced play-by-plays for the Plymouth Regional High School Football on the local cable access channel Pemi Baker TV. He called three state Division Two State Championship games at UNH during his tenure from 2016-2020. He concluded his professional work experience as Restorative Justice Director of CADY (Communities for Alcohol and Drug-Free Youth) from 2010 - 2021 in Plymouth, New Hampshire. He successfully worked with over one-hundred and fifty at-risk youth and received the Restoring Futures Award in 2017.

He leaves his wife Carol of 36 years, and their three children Andrew Tyler of Milford, New Hampshire, Kimberly Hamilton and her husband, Daniel, of Campton, New Hampshire and Kristen Blanchard and her husband, Casey, also of Campton, New Hampshire. He leaves his loving big brother Kenneth Tyler and his wife Deborah Tyler of Venice, Florida, and niece Kimberly Tyler of Chester, Connecticut. He leaves four grandchildren, Mila Blanchard and Chandler Blanchard of Campton, New Hampshire, McKenzie Hamilton and Gunnar Hamilton of Campton, New Hampshire, and brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Craig and Kelly Falardeau, of Northumberland, New Hampshire. He had the love and support of an extended family of Ralph and Ruth Bradley of Thornton, New Hampshire.

A celebration of life will be held Sunday ,September 7th, 2025, from 1:00 - 3:00 PM, at the Common Man in Plymouth, NH. There will be a private burial for the immediate family at Mad River Cemetery in Thornton, New Hampshire on the family plot.