Obit: Roberta Tomlinson Lyon, 1999, Lincoln Parish, LA 
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291 


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             2 The Ruston Daily Leader, Monday, October 4, 1999

                     Roberta Tomlinson Lyon

 Services for Mrs. Roberta Tomlinson Lyon 84,of Ruston will be held
at 4 p.m. Tuesday, October 5, 1999 in the Kilpatrick Funeral Home
Chapel.  Officiating will be Father Jerome Thelen.

 Interment will be in the Forest Lawn Cemetery under the direction
of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston.

 Mrs. Lyon died Sunday, October 3, 1999, in the Lincoin General
Hospital.

 Mrs. Lyon was born in Raton, N.M., February 26, 1915, the daughter
of Robert and Ethel Tomlinson.  She received her bachelor's degree
from Mills College and her Master's in Business Administration from
Louisiana Tech University.

 With her late husband, Frank Lyon, they founded Ruston Office and
Photo Supply in 1950.  She was a charter member of Quota Club as
well as being a member of the League of Women Voters and the
National Federation of the Blind.  She had served on the Ruston
Planning and Zoning Commission and the Ruston Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Board.

 Mrs. Lyon was blessed to have had Evelyn Levingston, Pinkie
Johnson, Lela Silas and Nora Jackson as caregivers for many years.

Memorials may be made to the charity of the donor's choice.

 Visitation will be from 2 p.m. until service time Tuesday, October
5,1999, at the funeral home.