business, Pyle was the guardian for two orphaned boys and managed her family's 640-acre farm near Huron. She was a member of the South Dakota Board of Charities and Corrections from 1943 to 1957. Death and burial In 1988, Pyle became the oldest living current or former U.S. senator. She died in Huron on March 14, 1989, aged 98. Her ashes are interred at Riverside Cemetery in Huron. Legacy The Pyle House, the family home that Gladys Pyle lived in from 1894 until 1985 is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been converted into a museum. Pyle recorded her own recollections of the home before her death, in preparation for its conversion. It is largely unchanged from when it was built and has many of the original furnishings and interior decorations. See also Women in the United States Senate List of United States senators from South Dakota References External links |- |- |- 1890 births 1989 deaths 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American women politicians Female United States senators People from Huron, South Dakota Huron University alumni Republican Party United States senators from South Dakota Secretaries of State of South Dakota Republican Party members of the South Dakota House of Representatives Women in South Dakota politics Women state legislators in South Dakota American suffragists