Family was able to find some comfort early Wednesday morning, when members of the Trigg County Fiscal Court unveiled signage along a bridge on the South Road honoring the name and memory of the late David Kyler.
Though it’s a bridge his Kyler Bridge Company never once laid hands on for construction or repair, the location was fitting — and particularly at the behest of his proud grandson, Owen.
It resides not far from a company he ran for more than five decades, nor from a homestead he and his wife of 70 years, JoNell, called camp for some three decades — after moving there from Nunn Boulevard and a short stint on the Cadiz City Council.
Family property, some of it recently thinned in order to promote forest growth, also wraps around the serene bridge — one David crossed hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times in order to go to and from home and work.
Judge-Executive Hollis Alexander called Kyler “a staple of the Trigg County community.”
Kyler served Trigg Countians, and his family, in a litany of ways aside from his bridge business. He was a well-known cattle farmer and a member of the Trigg County Cattleman’s Association, and also served on the Kentucky Contractors Association, the South Road Fire Department and was a 65-year member of the Cadiz Masonic Lodge #121.
He also served on the board for Trigg Co. Farmers Bank, the Barkley Lake Water District, the Civitan Club and Gideons International.
Alexander noted that these kinds of celebrations need to occur more often when the dignitaries are alive. At 89 years old, Kyler unfortunately passed in September following an automotive accident.
