Services for Lorena Watson Pyle, 92, of Marshall will be held Thursday, March 7, 2013 at Downs Funeral Home. A time of visitation for family and friends will be at 1:00 p.m., followed by the funeral service at 2:00 p.m. Rev. Rodger Garbs, Dr. Robert Galvan Sr. and Bob Bryant will officiate. The burial will follow in Colonial Gardens Cemetery. Lorena Watson Pyle passed away on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 in Marshall, TX surrounded by her loving family and friends. She was born on April 25, 1920 in Henrietta, TX to Donnie and Lois Watson. Lorena was reared in Bonham, TX, and graduated from Bonham High School in 1939. Following graduation, she moved to Dallas, went to college, and then was employed as an Assistant to the Vice President of a Dallas Corporation. With the outbreak of World War II, Lorena moved back to Bonham, and was employed at Bonham Aviation - a military institution that trained Pilots for the war effort. It was there that she met one of the flight instructors, Jo Berry Pyle of Marshall, TX, and on February 15, 1945, they were married at Dallas Love Field where Joe was stationed. Following the end of the War, they moved to Marshall, TX, and for the next 67 years Lorena call Marshall home. Lorena Pyle lived an extraordinary life, and was able to balance a successful career with Merle Norman Cosmetics, with that of a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother and aunt. Always an engaging, resourceful and delightful individual, she was kind and loving, full of wit and laughter, and one who truly loved her family and her many friends. In 1946, she transferred her membership from the First Baptist Church in Bonham, TX to the First United Methodist Church in Marshall, and was a faithful member of that church for more than 65 years. Lorena Watson Pyle is survived by her two children, Vikki Ann Myers and Lee Harmon Pyle and his wife Debbie; grandchildren, Jonas Barrett Cothron, Jacob Bryan Pyle and wife Mendy, Jason Lee Pyle and wife Crystal; great grandchildren, Caleb, Noah and Trystan; sister, Betty Jean Kincaid nieces, Donna Pyle Galvan and husband Dr. Robert Galvan, Sr, Cecilia Watson Wood and husband Mike, Marci Pendley and husband Christian, Suzanne Watson Planchard and husband Louis; great nieces and nephews, David Galvan, Mary Michael Moore, and husband Kevin, Betty King and husband Kenny, Caroline and Alex King, Terry Peters and husband Jim, Amanda and Hillary Peters, Jackie Warner and husband Carl, Reed and Kendall Warner; and numerous other nieces and nephews and many friends who loved her as family. Lorena was preceded in death by her husband, Joe Berry Pyle; her loving parents, Donnie and Lois Watson; and brother, Ralph O. Watson and his wife Verlin. Serving as pallbearers will be Jason Pyle, Jacob Pyle, Michael Wood, Louis Planchard, Kenny King, Frank Helsley, David Galvin and Kyle Furrh. Honorary pallbearers will be Carl Warner, Jim Peters, Scotty Furrh and Dr. Tommy Dunbar. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942.