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In 1960, Lyons was a founding member of the Pierremont Oaks Tennis Club, which now offers twenty-one courts, an Olympic-size swimming pool, and full-service dining and lounge facilities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pierremontoaks.com/|title=Pierremont Oaks Tennis Club|publisher=pierremontoaks.com|accessdate=August 25, 2014}}</ref> She was a world traveler, a seamstress, and a gardener.<ref name=obit/> She was a board member of the foundation of the LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport<ref name=tst/> and a donor to the institution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sh.lsuhsc.edu/Foundation/Contributors.htm|title=Deans' List $1,000+|date=December 31, 2003|publisher=sh.lsuhsc.edu|accessdate=August 24, 2014}}</ref>

In 1960, Lyons was a founding member of the Pierremont Oaks Tennis Club, which now offers twenty-one courts, an Olympic-size swimming pool, and full-service dining and lounge facilities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pierremontoaks.com/|title=Pierremont Oaks Tennis Club|publisher=pierremontoaks.com|accessdate=August 25, 2014}}</ref> She was a world traveler, a seamstress, and a gardener.<ref name=obit/> She was a board member of the foundation of the LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport<ref name=tst/> and a donor to the institution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sh.lsuhsc.edu/Foundation/Contributors.htm|title=Deans' List $1,000+|date=December 31, 2003|publisher=sh.lsuhsc.edu|accessdate=August 24, 2014}}</ref>

An excellent [[Cooking|cook]], Lyons formerly operated her own restaurant.<ref name=mmartin/>In 1990, she was listed as a general partner of Wilkinson Properties Limited, with a mailing address in [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizapedia.com/la/WILKINSON-PROPERTIES-LIMITED-PARTNERSHIP-S.html|title=Wilkinson Properties Limited|publisher=bizapedia.com|date=January 22, 1990|accessdate=August 25, 2014}}</ref>

An excellent [[Cooking|cook]], Lyons formerly operated her own restaurant.<ref name=mmartin/>In 1990, she was listed as a general partner of Wilkinson Properties Limited, with a mailing address in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizapedia.com/la/WILKINSON-PROPERTIES-LIMITED-PARTNERSHIP-S.html|title=Wilkinson Properties Limited|publisher=bizapedia.com|date=January 22, 1990|accessdate=August 25, 2014}}</ref>

Her daughter, Shreveport attorney Laurie Wilkinson Lyons (born April 1954), a Democrat,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/home.aspx?galogin=voter|title=Laurie Lyons, April 1954|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=August 23, 2014}}</ref> told the [[journalist]] Margaret Martin of ''The Shreveport Times'' that her mother grieved for women who struggle with family violence and opened her home and heart to the needy: "It was not unusual for us to come home and there would be somebody we didn't know. Mama would be consoling them, and they would spend the night, people going through a difficult time in their lives."<ref name=tst/>

Her daughter, Shreveport attorney Laurie Wilkinson Lyons (born April 1954), a Democrat,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/home.aspx?galogin=voter|title=Laurie Lyons, April 1954|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=August 23, 2014}}</ref> told the [[journalist]] Margaret Martin of ''The Shreveport Times'' that her mother grieved for women who struggle with family violence and opened her home and heart to the needy: "It was not unusual for us to come home and there would be somebody we didn't know. Mama would be consoling them, and they would spend the night, people going through a difficult time in their lives."<ref name=tst/>

==Death==

==Death==

Lyons died at the age of eighty-three at her 7130 Gilbert Drive residence in Shreveport. After a private burial at Forest Park East Cemetery, a memorial service was held on August 4, 2007, at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Shreveport. In addition to Laurie Lyons and her husband, Henry Clay Walker, IV (born August 1942), Lyons was survived by her five other children and their spouses: Susybelle L. Gosslee (born 1945), the former president of the [[League of Women Voters]] chapter in [[Dallas]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.c-span.org/person/?susybellegosslee|title=Susybelle Gosslee|publisher=[[C-SPAN]]|accessdate=August 24, 2014}}</ref> and the former wife of John Michael Gosslee;<ref name=jwgobit/> Stafford Lyons, wife of Henry P. Offermann; Charlton H. Lyons, III, and wife, the former Dianne Lewis; Sally L. Wood, and Marian L. McGoldrick, wife of Bruce Mortin McGoldrick. Her sister, Margaret Wilkinson Wilson (born 1929), formerly Margaret Butler, survived her, as did thirteen grandchildren, and thirteen great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>Her oldest grandchild, John Wilkinson Gosslee of Dallas, died in 2013 of cancer at the age of forty-eight.<ref name=jwgobit/>

Lyons died at the age of eighty-three at her 7130 Gilbert Drive residence in Shreveport. After a private burial at Forest Park East Cemetery, a memorial service was held on August 4, 2007, at All Souls [[Unitarian Universalist Church]] in Shreveport. In addition to Laurie Lyons and her husband, Henry Clay Walker, IV (born August 1942), Lyons was survived by her five other children and their spouses: Susybelle L. Gosslee (born 1945), the former president of the [[League of Women Voters]] chapter in [[Dallas]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.c-span.org/person/?susybellegosslee|title=Susybelle Gosslee|publisher=[[C-SPAN]]|accessdate=August 24, 2014}}</ref> and the former wife of John Michael Gosslee;<ref name=jwgobit/> Stafford Lyons, wife of Henry P. Offermann; Charlton H. Lyons, III, and wife, the former Dianne Lewis; Sally L. Wood, and Marian L. McGoldrick, wife of Bruce Mortin McGoldrick. Her sister, Margaret Wilkinson Wilson (born 1929), formerly Margaret Butler, survived her, as did thirteen grandchildren, and thirteen great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>Her oldest grandchild, John Wilkinson Gosslee of Dallas, died in 2013 of cancer at the age of forty-eight.<ref name=jwgobit/>

According to her obituary, Lyons "loved the arts, music, and anything beautiful. She loved people and dogs, children and parties, and above all – laughter. Her generosity, sense of humor, and love of life will long be remembered."<ref name=obit/>

According to her obituary, Lyons "loved the arts, music, and anything beautiful. She loved people and dogs, children and parties, and above all – laughter. Her generosity, sense of humor, and love of life will long be remembered."<ref name=obit/>