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Grace Harrison Abney Tyre, 85, of Lexington, died Thursday, July 17, 2003, at Darby Square Nursing Home surrounded by her family. She was born on September 07, 1917, in Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky the daughter of Taylor Price and Nannie Powell Harrison. She was preceeded in death by two husbands: Robert A. Abney and Alvie Luther Tyre. She is survived by her children: Virginia Mae (Tommy ), Frank Anderson (Patsy), Marcella "Cookie", John Thomas "Tommy" (Leona), Robert Arthur "Bob" (Bonnie), William Edward "Eddie", Carl David (Mickey), and Gilbert Ray Abney (Uta), and Roy Luther Tyre (Nancy) and one step-daughter, Sara Ann Abney Wescott (Wayne), and one sister: Fanny Harrison Trimble. She has 27 grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Services will be held at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home on Harrodsburg Road at 10:30 AM on Monday, July 21, 2003, following will be a chapel service at the Bluegrass Memorial Gardens, visitation will be today from 5 to 9 PM. Suggestions of sympathy can sent to Grace Tyre Memorial Fund, P. O. Box 202, Lexington, Kentucky 40588.