Troup-Toombs-Emanuel County GaArchives Obituaries.....Tyson, LeRoy May 6, 1975 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William J. (Jim) Carroll williamcarrollj@bellsouth.net March 28, 2011, 7:58 pm The LaGrange Daily News 5-7-1975 LeRoy Tyson LeRoy Tyson, 45, of 730 North Greenwood Street died Tuesday at City-County Hospital following several months of declining health. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 11am at Unity United Methodist Church with the Rev. Floyd Tenney officiating. Burial will be in Pinecrest Cemetery in Vidalia at 4pm. A native of Emanuel County, Mr. Tyson had lived here for the past 18 years and was employed as an industrial engineer for International Playtex Corporation. He was a member of Unity United Methodist Church, Elm City Lodge 544, LaGrange Moose Club, and was a member and past president of the LaGrange Civitan Club. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Juanita Blaxton Tyson; two sons, Roy Michael Tyson and Alex Andrew Tyson, all of LaGrange; his father, Hardy Tyson of Higgston; his foster mother, Mrs. Leona Tyson Anderson of Reidsville; one brother, John Jackson Tyson of Baxley; three half-brothers, Ralph Tyson of Waycross and Charles Tyson and Gwendle Tyson, both of Jacksonville, Fla. The body will be at Boykin and Fling Funeral Home until Thursday morning and will lie in state at the church from 10am until the funeral hour. Additional Comments: LeRoy was born 3 Jun 1929 to Hardy Tyson and Naomie Mixon Tyson. Georgia death certificate #014596. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/troup/obits/t/tyson1889nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb