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Show : ..." -nYV--! yj :wr I LEONE JONES LYMAN Leone J. Lyman 74, dies in Cedar City, funeral rites here Funeral services were held Monday, April 10 at 2 p. m. for Leone Jones Lyman, 72, former manager and supervisor supervis-or of lunch rooms in the Iron County School District. Services Serv-ices were held in the Parowan Paro-wan Third Ward chapel. She died on April 6 of cancer at the home of a daughter Mrs. Milton (Irene) Sevy, in Cedar City. Bishop Richard Dotson of the Parowan Second Ward, conducted and prelude and postlude music was played by Ernest Ahlborn. The family prayer was offered by Budd Munford Speaker was J. Richard Halterman; Hal-terman; the obituary and tribute tri-bute was given by E. Lyman Munford, and remarks were made by Bishop Eldro Rigby of the Cedar Second Ward, and by Bishop Dotson. The invocation was offered by G. Milton Sevy, the benediction bene-diction was offered by Dee J. Williamson, and the grave in the Parowan City cemetery was dedicated by Harold Edwards. Ed-wards. Musical numbers for the services were a vocal solo by Ralph Hafen, "Abide with Me, 'Tis Eventide", accompanied by Janet Knell; a vocal duet, "Whispering Hope", by Lois McConnell and Mamie Eck, with Ruth Urie as accompanist, accompan-ist, and a vocal solo "Coming Home" by Bert Carpenter, with Janet Knell at the piano. Pallbearers were Steven Sevy, Se-vy, Kent Munford, Richard Edwards, Robert Edwards, Arthur Ar-thur Pryor and Gary Weston. Flowers were carried by the ladies of the Parowan Second Ward Relief Society. Mrs. Lyman was born May 13, 1897 at Enoch, a daughter of Sylvester Frazier and Mary Alice Melling Jones. She married mar-ried Morris Burton Lyman of Parowan Nov. 23, 1915, and their marriage was later solemnized sol-emnized in the St. George LDS Temple, They spent much of their early married life operating op-erating an alfalsa seed farm in the Parowan Valley. Mr. Lyman Ly-man died Oct. 17, 1965. Mrs. Lyman was one of the earliest workers in the school lunch program, serving for 30 years. The watched the program pro-gram grow from the serving of one hot dish to supplement the dry sandwiches brought to school each day by out-of-town children, to the provision of a well balanced and nutritious meal to a good portion of both high and elementary school students. She retired from the program on May, 1962. Following retirement from this program she worked for six years at SUSC as a "special Baker" for the cafeteria. A member of the LDS Church she served as a counselor in the Relief Society at the time the church canning program was inaugurated. She worked in the Primary, MIA and Sunday Sun-day School. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Harold (Beth) Edwards, Milford; Mrs. Marie (Budd) Munford, Parowan and Mrs. Milton (Irene) Sevy, Ce-dar Ce-dar City; 19 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren; one brother, Nathaniel Jones, Enterprise; En-terprise; sisters, Mrs. George (Sarah) Lane, Cardinal, Ont., Canada; Mrs. Millard (Pearl) Halterman, Enoch. |