Louise (Edwards) Tyndall

FALLS VILLAGE — Louise (Edwards) Tyndall died peacefully in the early morning hours of Dec. 6, 2015, at Noble Horizons after a long series of illnesses. 

After growing up mostly in South Carolina, Louise attended Duke University as a National Merit Scholar. There she met her future husband, upperclassman Albert Tyndall, and left school to marry him in the spring of 1958. 

The couple lived in several homes in the New York City area before settling in the Northwest Corner in 1979. 

They kept an apartment in Manhattan until Louise retired from her work as a legal secretary and paralegal, and her vocation as an opera singer.

She and Al traveled widely over the years. She once said she had the same picture of him — standing in a bathing suit, thigh-deep in salt water, smiling at her — in every ocean and most of the seas in the world. Some of those travels were trips she won on game shows in the early years of their marriage. 

She also enjoyed cooking for guests, watching tennis matches  and talking with almost anyone about almost anything.

She remained active and fiercely independent throughout her life, even after retirement, widowhood, various illnesses and even the loss of her youngest son. 

She was appointed and later elected the Republican registrar of voters for Falls Village, and thrived in the collegial atmosphere of Town Hall. 

She continued to tend her garden even when she was no longer able to walk through it, sitting in her porch chair and orchestrating family members in their efforts to keep everything growing just so. 

And she doted upon her cats, most recently the overweight, unflappable Miss Gray. It is no wonder, or accident, that the sign on the path to that porch read “Tyndall Family — Wildlife Preserve, Gardens, Residence.”

She was the widow of Albert Forbes Tyndall Jr., her husband of 48 years. She was also predeceased by a son, Mark Whitney Tyndall. She is now with them again, and all three are happier for it. 

She is survived by a son, David Tyndall of St. Louis, Mo.; a daughter, Leigh Westberg of Fairfield, Conn.; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and numerous friends, who made her final days more pleasant than they will ever know. Her ashes will be interred with those of her husband and son in Falls Village in the springtime, when the flowers should be starting to bloom in her beloved garden once more. 

In lieu of even more flowers, contributions may be made to the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, an institution which provided Louise’s entire family with much enjoyment and kindness over the years.