OBIT: James H. LYONS, Jr., 1998, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  LYONS
  
    James H. Lyons Jr., 75, Ebensburg, died July 3, 1998, at Indian
  Lake Borough.  Born Sept. 2, 1922 in St. Benedict, son of the late
  James and Ella (Decker) Lyons Sr.  Preceded in death by brothers,
  George and Ralph Lyons.  Survived by wife, Betty Jane (Houck) Lyons,
  ending a loving marriage union of 50 years; and these children: Linda
  Lyons Hall, Georgia; James H. Lyons III, married to the former Laurel
  L. Henry, Ebensburg; Patty Jayne (Lyons), wife of Donald C. Supcoe,
  of Charleston, W.Va.; also 8 grandchildren.  Honored U.S. Army
  veteran, having served in the European Theater with the 44th Engineer
  Division.  Founder of Lyons Cable Repair and owner of Keystone
  Industrial Products for 45 years.  Member of Ebensburg Presbyterian
  Church, where he had served as a trustee and elder.  Served on the
  board of Laurel Bank, Ebensburg, and the B.T. Management Trust
  Company of Johnstown.  He was a participating member of the Conemaugh
  Memorial Hospital Mental Health Board and the Cambria County Waste
  Management Board.  A long-standing member of the Sunnehanna Country
  Club, he also enjoyed lifetime membership in the VFW and American
  Legion and was a member of the Johnstown Elks and Ebensburg
  Oddfellows Lodge.  Friends will be received from 7-9 p.m. Monday, and
  2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at the Askew-Houser Funeral Homes Inc.,
  Ebensburg.  Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the
  Ebensburg Presbyterian Church, the Reverends Donna Hess and Jack
  Noble officiating.  Entombment at Grandview Mausoleum, Johnstown. 
  Veteran's Cemetery Rite by the Menoher Post 155 Ritual Team. 
  Memorial donations may be made in his memory to the Ebensburg
  Presbyterian Church, North Center Street, Ebensburg, Pa., 15931.
  
  Daily American, July 6, 1998
  
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