Earl Butch Tyrrell, age 86, of Tulare and formerly of Jamestown, ND, Yale, Bancroft and the DeSmet areas, died Monday, January 17, 2005 at the Community Memorial Hospital at Redfield, SD. His funeral service will be at 2:00 PM Friday, January 21st at the Welter Funeral Home with Rev. Peter Utecht officiating. Burial will be at Maplewood Cemetery at Iroquois. Friends may call after 3:00 PM Thursday afternoon and evening or Friday until the time of service at the Welter Funeral Home. There will be a Prayer Service at 7:00 PM Thursday evening at the funeral home. Phillip Earl Tyrrell was born on January 16, 1919, to Phillip E. and Rose (Feicke) Tyrrell on a farm seven miles northeast of Yale. He attended grade school at the Tyrrell School. On February 10, 1945, Butch married Laura Ann Dent in a small service at Yale. They resided on a farm six and a half miles northeast of Yale until 1968 when due to a record snowfall they moved to Iroquois. From there they lived in Bancroft until the closing of the Bancroft School. While at Bancroft Butch was the custodian of the school and when they moved to De Smet he was the custodian of the De Smet Armory. They moved to Jamestown, ND in 1978 where Butch was employed at the Washington School until his retirement. He was an avid Minnesota Vikings fan and enjoyed playing cards and fishing. He is survived by his children, Douglas (Sandi) Tyrrell of rural Huron, Duane Tyrrell of Huron, Mark Wilson Tyrrell of Riverton, WY and Mary Lois Lindberg of Tulare; seven grandchildren; twelve great grandchildren; three sisters, Josephine Gaughran of Chandler, AZ, Lois Beck Early of Mesa, AZ, and Marian Weber of Clark; as well as many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, Laura on March 31, 2004, one daughter, Dianne Bitsy Warnell, his parents, one brother, Maynard Sandy Tyrrell, and two sisters, Muriel Peterson and Edna Tyrrell.