George Tyler, 88, of Laconia, New Hampshire, passed away March 25, 2025, of natural causes.

According to his obituary in the Nashua Telegraph, Tyler earned a degree in arboriculture from the University of Massachusetts Stockbridge School of Agriculture while simultaneously working for New England Tree Experts, a division of the Asplundh Tree Expert LLC, a 49-year TCIA member company based in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.

He began selling the SkyWorker “cherry picker,” the first aerial-lift truck for the PC Gould Co. in Essex, Connecticut. When the northern New England territory became available in 1968, he moved to Merrimack, N.H.

Tyler founded Consolidated Utility Equipment Service Inc. (CUES) also in 1968. CUES grew to be the major supplier of aerial buckets, wood chippers, cranes and related truck equipment in the Northeast and was a TCIA corporate member company from 1968 – 2020.

Tyler served as president of what was then the National Arborist Association, now the Tree Care Industry Association, in 1988 and was an active member of Rotary International. He retired in 1990, according to his obituary.

A private memorial service will be held at a later date.

Read the full obituary as published in the Nashua Telegraph at the link below.

https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/obituaries-memorials/obituaries/2025/04/02/george-tyler/