Bessie (Hales) Lyons (1895 - 1971)

Born 21 Mar 1895 in Humboldt, Richardson, Nebraska, United States

Wife of Edgar Paul Lyons — married 2 Oct 1919 in Pawnee, Nebraska, United States

Died 8 Mar 1971 at age 75 in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States

Biography

Bessie was born in 1895 in Richardson County, Nebraska. She was the daughter of Alfonso Hales and Minnie Laforge. In 1919, she married Edgar Paul Lyons (1895-1979), and they had the following children:

• Virginia Christine Lyons (1921-2017)
• Richard W Lyons (1922-1923)
• Harold Stanley Lyons (1924-2013)
• Elta Marie Lyons (1925-2004)
• Ellen E Lyons (1928-1929)
• Phyllis Pauline Lyons (1931-1997)
• Ronald Verner Lyons (1934-2002)
• John M Lyons (1936-)
• Jerold W Lyons (1937-1937)

Bessie passed away in 1971 in Lincoln, Nebraska, and is interred in the Heim Cemetery.

Bessie (Hales) Lyons is buried in the Heim Cemetery.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3B1-42H : accessed 15 February 2021), Bessie Halis in household of Al W Halis, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 144, sheet 1B, family 180, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,938.
• "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q298-66RK : 18 January 2020), Bessie Hales in entry for E. P. Lyons, 2 Oct 1919; citing Marriage, Pawnee, Nebraska, United States, Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln; FHL microfilm 1,986,941.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9MP-37G : 6 January 2021), Bessie Lyons in household of Paul E Lyons, Grant Election Precinct, Dawson, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 74-11, sheet 3A, line 30, family 58, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2262.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK1-1SWJ : 28 September 2020), Bessie Hales Lyons, ; Burial, Dawson, Richardson, Nebraska, United States of America, Heim Cemetery; citing record ID 54168684, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• Bessie Hales at FamilySearch