06/30/1950 - 06/05/2026 Ralph Sheldon Tyler - builder, attorney, civic steward, son of one of Ohio's most consequential African American families, and beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend passed away peacefully on June 5, 2026, in Cleveland, Ohio, just shy of his seventy-sixth birthday. Ralph was born on June 30, 1950, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Ralph Conrad Tyler and Mabel Saundra Tyler. He grew up in Cleveland, attending Miles Standish Elementary School and