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Floyd Hamilton Lyons

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Floyd Hamilton Lyons

Birth
Hookstown, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
21 Jul 1971 (aged 77)
Chester, Hancock County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Chester, Hancock County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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OBITUARY: East Liverpool Evening Review, East Liverpool, Columbiana Co., OH, Wednesday, 21 Jul 1971, pg. 12.

Death Takes Retired Chief

Services will be held Friday for Floyd H. (Doc) Lyons, 77, of Ferry Rd., Chester, former Chester police chief. He died this morning at home after a long illness. Mr. Lyons served as police chief in Chester for 30 years, retiring in 1960. A native of Beaver County, he was the city's sole law enforcement officer for two decades after becoming chief in 1930. For the first 15 years of his service, he was on duty seven days a week, 12 or more hours a day until a Hancock County sheriff's deputy was assigned to assist him in 1845. A son of the late William and Mary Lyons, he was born at Hookstown Feb. 18, 1894. Prior to becoming an officer, he was employed by the Manufacturer's Light & Heat Co., the Finley Brothers Lumber Co., the Chester Cord Tire Corp. and the American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Stewart Lyons at home; a daughter, Mrs. Lester (Mary) Brown of Chester RD 1; a son, Earl F. Lyons of Chester; a brother, Allen J. Lyons of Chester; two grandchildren and four great - grandchildren. Services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 at the Welch Funeral Home in Hookstown. Burial will be in Locust Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 and Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.

Allison lineage back to Thomas Allanson, English extraction, London.

Thomas Allanson/Mary Roberts
Charles Allanson/ ? Posey
Thomas Allison/Barbary Burch
Charles Allison/Barbara Moore
James Allison/Nancy ?
Thomas Allison/Mary Bailey
Isaac B. Allison/Rachel Thompson
Julia Ann Allison/William Orin Lyons
Floyd Hamilton Lyons
OBITUARY: East Liverpool Evening Review, East Liverpool, Columbiana Co., OH, Wednesday, 21 Jul 1971, pg. 12.

Death Takes Retired Chief

Services will be held Friday for Floyd H. (Doc) Lyons, 77, of Ferry Rd., Chester, former Chester police chief. He died this morning at home after a long illness. Mr. Lyons served as police chief in Chester for 30 years, retiring in 1960. A native of Beaver County, he was the city's sole law enforcement officer for two decades after becoming chief in 1930. For the first 15 years of his service, he was on duty seven days a week, 12 or more hours a day until a Hancock County sheriff's deputy was assigned to assist him in 1845. A son of the late William and Mary Lyons, he was born at Hookstown Feb. 18, 1894. Prior to becoming an officer, he was employed by the Manufacturer's Light & Heat Co., the Finley Brothers Lumber Co., the Chester Cord Tire Corp. and the American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Stewart Lyons at home; a daughter, Mrs. Lester (Mary) Brown of Chester RD 1; a son, Earl F. Lyons of Chester; a brother, Allen J. Lyons of Chester; two grandchildren and four great - grandchildren. Services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 at the Welch Funeral Home in Hookstown. Burial will be in Locust Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 9 and Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.

Allison lineage back to Thomas Allanson, English extraction, London.

Thomas Allanson/Mary Roberts
Charles Allanson/ ? Posey
Thomas Allison/Barbary Burch
Charles Allison/Barbara Moore
James Allison/Nancy ?
Thomas Allison/Mary Bailey
Isaac B. Allison/Rachel Thompson
Julia Ann Allison/William Orin Lyons
Floyd Hamilton Lyons


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