Yvonne Jackson Lyon
1923 - 2017
Early Life: Yvonne was born October 19, 1923, in Toquerville, Utah, the second child of Harvey Albert and Irma Slack Jackson. Yvonne grew up with her four sisters: Corris, Laurel, Eleanor and Maurine, on a farm in Toquerville. Yvonne was very determined to do well scholastically and graduated as valedictorian of her class at each of these educational institutions: Hurricane High, 1941; Dixie Junior College, 1943; and Brigham Young University, 1945.
Life’s Work: Following her graduation from BYU, Yvonne’s first employment was as an English teacher at Moapa Valley High School in Overton, Nevada. In Overton, she met her future husband, Harlan M. Lyon, at an LDS Sunday School class of that he was teaching. She was immediately impressed by how much Shakespeare Harlan was able to quote from memory. Harlan was soon introduced to Yvonne, and they were married June 3, 1947, in the Saint George Utah LDS Temple. They became the parents of six children. She was the “Great Basin” equivalent of a “Tiger Mom.” She attended fiercely and devotedly to her children, protected them, pushed them, expected much of them, comforted them and loved them with an unconditional love. She created a family culture where education was highly prized, where exposure to the great books and ideas of our common human heritage was mandatory and where music was to be incorporated as part of one’s life. At the same time, Yvonne also taught and practiced respect for all persons, and lived a life full of service and giving to others. She was active in her church, civic and community affairs. Yvonne did not shy away from challenging ideas and conventions. She was a strong and forceful personality in all respects, yet was also a peacemaker, with a calming influence. Family and friends turned often to her because of her nurturing ways. Yvonne lived in Overton, Nevada, from 1945 to 1978, when her husband sold his business and they moved to Provo, Utah. Several years following Harlan’s passing in 1998, Yvonne moved to Salt Lake City and lived with her daughter, Elaine. Yvonne was a lifelong and devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in many positions of responsibility including ward and stake Relief Society president in the Overton 2nd Ward and Oak Hills Stake in Provo, Utah. Harlan and Yvonne served a mission in 1982 in the New York Rochester LDS Mission, where they were assigned as missionaries in the branch on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation near Buffalo, New York (the Indian tribe to whom Joseph Smith first sent missionaries – see D&C Section 32). Yvonne’s impact on shaping the lives of her children, their spouses, grandchildren and great grandchildren who survive her, cannot be overstated. She was a wonderful, active, energetic woman who embraced life and its challenges and who imparted the sense of appreciation and wonder she had for life to her posterity, all who love her deeply. She will be missed. Yvonne Jackson Lyon passed away peacefully at her home on November 2, 2017. She was 94.
Survived By: Her children: David (Donna), of Sandy, UT; Kent (Isis), of Daytona, Beach, FL; Carla Lyon Swift (Robert), of Las Vegas, NV; Lucy Lyon Sonntag (James), of Salt Lake City, UT; Ruth Lyon Wray (Roger), of Bountiful, UT; and Elaine Lyon, of Salt Lake City, UT; her sister, Eleanor Jackson Campbell (Charles), Woodland, CA; 20 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.
Services: Parley First Ward Chapel
Arranged By: Larkin Mortuary
Burial: Provo City Cemetery
Original Obituary Published By:
© Daily Herald | Provo, Utah | 4 Nov 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
1923 - 2017
Early Life: Yvonne was born October 19, 1923, in Toquerville, Utah, the second child of Harvey Albert and Irma Slack Jackson. Yvonne grew up with her four sisters: Corris, Laurel, Eleanor and Maurine, on a farm in Toquerville. Yvonne was very determined to do well scholastically and graduated as valedictorian of her class at each of these educational institutions: Hurricane High, 1941; Dixie Junior College, 1943; and Brigham Young University, 1945.
Life’s Work: Following her graduation from BYU, Yvonne’s first employment was as an English teacher at Moapa Valley High School in Overton, Nevada. In Overton, she met her future husband, Harlan M. Lyon, at an LDS Sunday School class of that he was teaching. She was immediately impressed by how much Shakespeare Harlan was able to quote from memory. Harlan was soon introduced to Yvonne, and they were married June 3, 1947, in the Saint George Utah LDS Temple. They became the parents of six children. She was the “Great Basin” equivalent of a “Tiger Mom.” She attended fiercely and devotedly to her children, protected them, pushed them, expected much of them, comforted them and loved them with an unconditional love. She created a family culture where education was highly prized, where exposure to the great books and ideas of our common human heritage was mandatory and where music was to be incorporated as part of one’s life. At the same time, Yvonne also taught and practiced respect for all persons, and lived a life full of service and giving to others. She was active in her church, civic and community affairs. Yvonne did not shy away from challenging ideas and conventions. She was a strong and forceful personality in all respects, yet was also a peacemaker, with a calming influence. Family and friends turned often to her because of her nurturing ways. Yvonne lived in Overton, Nevada, from 1945 to 1978, when her husband sold his business and they moved to Provo, Utah. Several years following Harlan’s passing in 1998, Yvonne moved to Salt Lake City and lived with her daughter, Elaine. Yvonne was a lifelong and devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in many positions of responsibility including ward and stake Relief Society president in the Overton 2nd Ward and Oak Hills Stake in Provo, Utah. Harlan and Yvonne served a mission in 1982 in the New York Rochester LDS Mission, where they were assigned as missionaries in the branch on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation near Buffalo, New York (the Indian tribe to whom Joseph Smith first sent missionaries – see D&C Section 32). Yvonne’s impact on shaping the lives of her children, their spouses, grandchildren and great grandchildren who survive her, cannot be overstated. She was a wonderful, active, energetic woman who embraced life and its challenges and who imparted the sense of appreciation and wonder she had for life to her posterity, all who love her deeply. She will be missed. Yvonne Jackson Lyon passed away peacefully at her home on November 2, 2017. She was 94.
Survived By: Her children: David (Donna), of Sandy, UT; Kent (Isis), of Daytona, Beach, FL; Carla Lyon Swift (Robert), of Las Vegas, NV; Lucy Lyon Sonntag (James), of Salt Lake City, UT; Ruth Lyon Wray (Roger), of Bountiful, UT; and Elaine Lyon, of Salt Lake City, UT; her sister, Eleanor Jackson Campbell (Charles), Woodland, CA; 20 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.
Services: Parley First Ward Chapel
Arranged By: Larkin Mortuary
Burial: Provo City Cemetery
Original Obituary Published By:
© Daily Herald | Provo, Utah | 4 Nov 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
Yvonne Jackson Lyon
1923 - 2017
Early Life: Yvonne was born October 19, 1923, in Toquerville, Utah, the second child of Harvey Albert and Irma Slack Jackson. Yvonne grew up with her four sisters: Corris, Laurel, Eleanor and Maurine, on a farm in Toquerville. Yvonne was very determined to do well scholastically and graduated as valedictorian of her class at each of these educational institutions: Hurricane High, 1941; Dixie Junior College, 1943; and Brigham Young University, 1945.
Life’s Work: Following her graduation from BYU, Yvonne’s first employment was as an English teacher at Moapa Valley High School in Overton, Nevada. In Overton, she met her future husband, Harlan M. Lyon, at an LDS Sunday School class of that he was teaching. She was immediately impressed by how much Shakespeare Harlan was able to quote from memory. Harlan was soon introduced to Yvonne, and they were married June 3, 1947, in the Saint George Utah LDS Temple. They became the parents of six children. She was the “Great Basin” equivalent of a “Tiger Mom.” She attended fiercely and devotedly to her children, protected them, pushed them, expected much of them, comforted them and loved them with an unconditional love. She created a family culture where education was highly prized, where exposure to the great books and ideas of our common human heritage was mandatory and where music was to be incorporated as part of one’s life. At the same time, Yvonne also taught and practiced respect for all persons, and lived a life full of service and giving to others. She was active in her church, civic and community affairs. Yvonne did not shy away from challenging ideas and conventions. She was a strong and forceful personality in all respects, yet was also a peacemaker, with a calming influence. Family and friends turned often to her because of her nurturing ways. Yvonne lived in Overton, Nevada, from 1945 to 1978, when her husband sold his business and they moved to Provo, Utah. Several years following Harlan’s passing in 1998, Yvonne moved to Salt Lake City and lived with her daughter, Elaine. Yvonne was a lifelong and devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in many positions of responsibility including ward and stake Relief Society president in the Overton 2nd Ward and Oak Hills Stake in Provo, Utah. Harlan and Yvonne served a mission in 1982 in the New York Rochester LDS Mission, where they were assigned as missionaries in the branch on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation near Buffalo, New York (the Indian tribe to whom Joseph Smith first sent missionaries – see D&C Section 32). Yvonne’s impact on shaping the lives of her children, their spouses, grandchildren and great grandchildren who survive her, cannot be overstated. She was a wonderful, active, energetic woman who embraced life and its challenges and who imparted the sense of appreciation and wonder she had for life to her posterity, all who love her deeply. She will be missed. Yvonne Jackson Lyon passed away peacefully at her home on November 2, 2017. She was 94.
Survived By: Her children: David (Donna), of Sandy, UT; Kent (Isis), of Daytona, Beach, FL; Carla Lyon Swift (Robert), of Las Vegas, NV; Lucy Lyon Sonntag (James), of Salt Lake City, UT; Ruth Lyon Wray (Roger), of Bountiful, UT; and Elaine Lyon, of Salt Lake City, UT; her sister, Eleanor Jackson Campbell (Charles), Woodland, CA; 20 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.
Services: Parley First Ward Chapel
Arranged By: Larkin Mortuary
Burial: Provo City Cemetery
Original Obituary Published By:
© Daily Herald | Provo, Utah | 4 Nov 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
1923 - 2017
Early Life: Yvonne was born October 19, 1923, in Toquerville, Utah, the second child of Harvey Albert and Irma Slack Jackson. Yvonne grew up with her four sisters: Corris, Laurel, Eleanor and Maurine, on a farm in Toquerville. Yvonne was very determined to do well scholastically and graduated as valedictorian of her class at each of these educational institutions: Hurricane High, 1941; Dixie Junior College, 1943; and Brigham Young University, 1945.
Life’s Work: Following her graduation from BYU, Yvonne’s first employment was as an English teacher at Moapa Valley High School in Overton, Nevada. In Overton, she met her future husband, Harlan M. Lyon, at an LDS Sunday School class of that he was teaching. She was immediately impressed by how much Shakespeare Harlan was able to quote from memory. Harlan was soon introduced to Yvonne, and they were married June 3, 1947, in the Saint George Utah LDS Temple. They became the parents of six children. She was the “Great Basin” equivalent of a “Tiger Mom.” She attended fiercely and devotedly to her children, protected them, pushed them, expected much of them, comforted them and loved them with an unconditional love. She created a family culture where education was highly prized, where exposure to the great books and ideas of our common human heritage was mandatory and where music was to be incorporated as part of one’s life. At the same time, Yvonne also taught and practiced respect for all persons, and lived a life full of service and giving to others. She was active in her church, civic and community affairs. Yvonne did not shy away from challenging ideas and conventions. She was a strong and forceful personality in all respects, yet was also a peacemaker, with a calming influence. Family and friends turned often to her because of her nurturing ways. Yvonne lived in Overton, Nevada, from 1945 to 1978, when her husband sold his business and they moved to Provo, Utah. Several years following Harlan’s passing in 1998, Yvonne moved to Salt Lake City and lived with her daughter, Elaine. Yvonne was a lifelong and devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in many positions of responsibility including ward and stake Relief Society president in the Overton 2nd Ward and Oak Hills Stake in Provo, Utah. Harlan and Yvonne served a mission in 1982 in the New York Rochester LDS Mission, where they were assigned as missionaries in the branch on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation near Buffalo, New York (the Indian tribe to whom Joseph Smith first sent missionaries – see D&C Section 32). Yvonne’s impact on shaping the lives of her children, their spouses, grandchildren and great grandchildren who survive her, cannot be overstated. She was a wonderful, active, energetic woman who embraced life and its challenges and who imparted the sense of appreciation and wonder she had for life to her posterity, all who love her deeply. She will be missed. Yvonne Jackson Lyon passed away peacefully at her home on November 2, 2017. She was 94.
Survived By: Her children: David (Donna), of Sandy, UT; Kent (Isis), of Daytona, Beach, FL; Carla Lyon Swift (Robert), of Las Vegas, NV; Lucy Lyon Sonntag (James), of Salt Lake City, UT; Ruth Lyon Wray (Roger), of Bountiful, UT; and Elaine Lyon, of Salt Lake City, UT; her sister, Eleanor Jackson Campbell (Charles), Woodland, CA; 20 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.
Services: Parley First Ward Chapel
Arranged By: Larkin Mortuary
Burial: Provo City Cemetery
Original Obituary Published By:
© Daily Herald | Provo, Utah | 4 Nov 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
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