Services for James E. Tygrett, 71, who served as a Pennsylvania Railroad conductor for thirty-five years before his retirement in 1942, will be Wednesday at Shirley Brothers Irving Hill Chapel. He died yesterday in General Hospital after an illness of two years. An Indianapolis resident for forty years, he lived at 50 South Oxford Street. He was a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky and a member of Englewood Christian Church. Surviving are his wife, Elta; a daugher, Mrs. Mary Rodewolt of Jacksonville, Florida; two sisters, Mrs. Vera Scheidler of Cambridge City, Indiana, and Mrs. Ethel Lott of Indianapolis; a brother, Warner Tygrett of Dayton, Ohio; and a grandson. Burial will be in Washington Park. [dated May 23, 1940]