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Services for
Harvey B. Lyon, 74, of Wilder, who died of natural causes
Friday, April 10, at a Homedale nursing home, will be held
at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Dakan Funeral Chapel, Caldwell.
The Rev. Sam
Hendrix of Medford, Ore.,
will officiate. Burial
will follow in the
Wilder Cemetery.
Mr. Lyon was born
Aug. 25, 1912, at Mount Etna, Iowa,
to Maston and Cora Lyon. He
moved with his parents as a child to Luke County, Neb.,
where the family homesteaded. He married Elva Mae Lesher
March 22, 1934, at Burke, S.D.
They lived in
Rock County,
Neb., before coming to Idaho in 1938.
They lived in the
Huston and Sunny Slope area until 1941 when they moved to
Vancouver,
Wash., where he worked in the ship
yards. In 1943 they
came to Parma where he worked for Parma Water Lifters and later
moved to Lake Fork, where he farmed from 1947 to 1950.
They came to Wilder
in 1950 and he worked for Idaho Concrete.
He later worked for
J.R. Simplot Company from 1953 until his retirment in 1974.
He was an
avid hunter and fisherman and a member of the National Rifle
Association.
He is survived by his wife of Wilder; a daughter, Moretta
Jones of Copper
Center, Alaska;
a son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Vicki Lyon of
Homedale; two grandsons; a granddaughter; three
great-granddaughters; three nieces and three nephews.
He was preceded
in death by a brother, Howard, and an infant sister.
Memorials may be
made to the Wilder Quick Response Unit, in care of Dakan
Funeral Chapel, P.O. Box 1386, Caldwell 83606.
Friends may call
at the chapel on Monday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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