Ewald Pyle

	Ewald (Schultz) Pyle, 93, of 538 Halliday Avenue in Du Quoin, IL. died at 11 p.m. on Saturday, January 10, 2004, at home.
	Services were held at 1 p.m. Saturday, January 17, 2004 in the First Baptist  Church with the Rev. Bob Dickerson officiating. Burial was in Sunset Memorial Park.
	Visitation was after 6 p.m. Friday, January 16, 2004  at Maxton Funeral Home and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the church.
	Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church building fund or Luke Memorial Hospice.
	Mr. Pyle was a retired major league baseball player and founder of the Du Quoin Khoury League summer baseball and softball program.
	He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Du Quoin.
	Ewald was instrumental in the establishment and organization of the Perry County Workshop for the Handicapped, now 5-Star Industries. He was active in the community and served on the Park Board, among other activities. He was honored as the Citizen of the Year in 1978.
	He was born August 27, 1910 in St. Louis, MO. 
	His natural father died. He and his mother, Dora Mae Hall, moved to Du Quoin when Ewald was two years old, where his mother married and he was adopted by Warden Pyle.
	He began playing professional baseball in 1939 at age 28 with the St. Louis Browns minor league team in San Antonio, TX. His final year in professional baseball came in 1950 at age 40.
	He married (Lillie) Louise Smith on January 24, 1936 in Murphysboro. She preceded him in death.
	He is survived by three sons and two daughters-in-law, Ron and Sonja Pyle of Summerfield, FL.; Doug and Sharon Pyle of Harrisburg, IL. and David Pyle of Du Quoin; nine grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
	His parents preceded him in death.

	
