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ArleanKerby Tyler

Genealogist, artist, and writer. This record holds her work as she left it: her family research, her art, and her writing, each catalogued as a source in its own right.

Painted half-length portrait of a woman with short auburn hair, in a white collared blouse and a dark red vest, against a loosely brushed blue-green ground
Plate I Untitled (portrait), by Arlean Kerby Tyler. Undated. From her works of art.
Born
1931Arlean Kerby
Died
2021
Work
Genealogist, artist, writer
Record
Being catalogued3 entries so far
Her life
i

Provo, Tonga, and after.

1931Born

Arlean Kerby.

1955–59Building program

Co-edits a history of the Church’s Tongan building program for these years.

1958The Mikado

Sings Pitti-Sing at Liahona College, Nuku‘alofa.

2021Death
In print
ii

In November 1958 the Deseret News reported that students and faculty of Liahona College, in Nuku‘alofa, Tonga, had staged Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado in two performances in the school auditorium, under the direction of David Butler. Among the performers the report singled out for praise was Arlean Tyler, as Pitti-Sing.

Deseret NewsWeek ending 15 November 1958

Students at Liahona College Present Comic Opera in Tonga

Read the page at Utah Digital Newspapers.

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Her work
iii

Three shelves, as she left them.

Genealogy

Family Research

Her genealogical work: trees, notes, and correspondence, recorded as she compiled them.

Being catalogued
Art

Works of Art

Each work recorded with its images, description, and provenance.

2 entries
Writing

Writing

Each piece recorded with its original pages and a transcription.

1 entry
Sources
iv

Where this comes from.

  1. FamilySearch, Arlean Kerby (LKJS-QMD), dates, memories, and the digital copies of her works.
  2. Deseret News, week ending 15 November 1958, via Utah Digital Newspapers: the Liahona College production.
  3. “Labor Missions in Tonga and Hawai‘i”, BYU Religious Studies Center: cites History of the LDS Tongan Building Program, 1955–1959, which she co-edited.