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DATE: MONDAY, December 27, 1993                   TAG: 9312270216
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RURAL RETREAT                                LENGTH: Short


OBIT LYONS, WILLIAM EDWARD

LYONS, William Edward, 79, of Route 1, Rural Retreat, died Saturday, December 25, 1993 in the Holston Valley Regional Medical Center in Kingsport, Tenn. He was a member of the Sharon Baptist Church in Rural Retreat and a member of Marion V.F.W. Post #4667. He is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Janet and Claude Edwards of Dublin; three sons and daughters-in-law, David Lyons, Bernie and Debbie Lyons, Buddy and Elizabeth Lyons, all of Rural Retreat; four sisters, Myrtle Catron, Lucy Patton, both of Independence, Mable Evans of Timonium, Md., Nellie Hale of Parkville, Md.; a brother, George Lyons of Fork, Md.; a special friend, Ruth Davidson of Rural Retreat; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren, one stepgrandchild; two stepgreat-grandchildren. Funeral services will will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, December 18, 1993 from the Lindsey Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Fred E. Jennings and the Rev. Michael Hoyle officiating. Interment will follow in the Asbury United Methodist Church Cemetery in Cedar Springs with military rites being conducted by Marion V.F.W. Post #4667. The family sincerely requests that those whom prefer may make memorials to the Rural Retreat Emergency Service. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home or at the residence at any time. Lindsey Funeral Home, Rural Retreat is in charge of arrangements.



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