The funeral and burial of Tyra Manning, a longtime River Forest school superintendent, has been set for Oct. 6 at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C.
Manning died on July 6, 2025 at the age of 78. She had lived with cancer for 18 years.
She led the District 90 River Forest elementary schools from 1992 to 2000. In retirement she moved home to West Texas where she wrote two books and grew her national reputation in education. Her first book, Where the Water Meets the Sand, was a memoir that told the story of her early life struggles with mental illness and substance abuse following the death of her husband Lt. Larry Hull, an Air Force pilot who died in 1971 while on a secret mission over Laos during the Vietnam war. His remains were not expatriated to the United States until 2006. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Manning’s funeral will be at the Old Post Chapel at Arlington. Guests will need to arrange their own transportation to the chapel, the gravesite and to exit the cemetery.