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'''Brother-in-law''':<br>

'''Brother-in-law''':<br>

[[Hall M. Lyons]]<br>

[[Hall M. Lyons]]<br>

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br>

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<br>

'''Alma mater''':<br>

'''Alma mater''':<br>

Susybelle Lyons graduated in 1940 from [[Clifton Ellis Byrd]] High School in Shreveport and then attended Stephens College, a women's institution in Columbia, [[Missouri]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://kindle.amazon.com/work/stephens-college-alumni-virginia-susybelle/115855642X/115855642X|title=''Stephens College Alumni: Virginia Shehee, Shirley Clarke, Susybelle Lyons, Lenore Carrero Nesbitt, Mark L. Taylor''|publisher=LLC: kindle.amazon.com|accessdate=August 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-stephens-college-alumni-and-students/reference?page=3|title=Famous Stephens College Alumni|publisher=ranker.com|accessdate=August 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>One of Lyons's Byrd High School and Stephens College classmates was [[Virginia Shehee|Virginia Ruth Kilpatrick Shehee]], the Shreveport businesswoman who was from 1976 to 1980 the first woman to serve in the Louisiana State Senate who did not succeed a husband.</ref> Lyons transferred to the [[University of Texas at Austin]], where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=91936985|title=Susybelle Wilkinson Lyons|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 3, 2007|accessdate=August 23, 2014}}</ref>

Susybelle Lyons graduated in 1940 from [[Clifton Ellis Byrd]] High School in Shreveport and then attended Stephens College, a women's institution in Columbia, [[Missouri]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://kindle.amazon.com/work/stephens-college-alumni-virginia-susybelle/115855642X/115855642X|title=''Stephens College Alumni: Virginia Shehee, Shirley Clarke, Susybelle Lyons, Lenore Carrero Nesbitt, Mark L. Taylor''|publisher=LLC: kindle.amazon.com|accessdate=August 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-stephens-college-alumni-and-students/reference?page=3|title=Famous Stephens College Alumni|publisher=ranker.com|accessdate=August 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>One of Lyons's Byrd High School and Stephens College classmates was [[Virginia Shehee|Virginia Ruth Kilpatrick Shehee]], the Shreveport businesswoman who was from 1976 to 1980 the first woman to serve in the Louisiana State Senate who did not succeed a husband.</ref> Lyons transferred to the [[University of Texas at Austin]], where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=91936985|title=Susybelle Wilkinson Lyons|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 3, 2007|accessdate=August 23, 2014}}</ref>

Lyons was the daughter-in-law of [[Charlton Lyons]], often considered the "father" of the revived 20th century Louisiana [[Republican Party]],<ref>"Charlton H. Lyons," ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 1 (1988), pp. 528–529.</ref> and Marjorie Hall Lyons (1895-1971), for whom the theater at [[United Methodist Church|United Methodist]]-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport is named. In August 1944, at St. Bartholemew's [[Episcopal Church]] in [[New York City]], Susybelle Wilkinson wed Charlton Havard Lyons, Jr. (1921-2019),<ref name=chljrobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=charlton-havard-lyons-jr&pid=193541860|title=Charlton Havard Lyons, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 3, 2019}}</ref> a graduate of [[Yale University]] then stationed with the [[United States Army]] in Augusta, [[Georgia]]. That summer, Susybelle was living on [[Long Island]], where her father, who had been an Army officer in [[World War I]], was a colonel in [[World War II]]. The couple first resided in [[New Orleans]], where Lyons, Jr., had been born on December 11, 1921 though he immediately moved with his parents to Shreveport, where he spent the majority of his life. After the war, the junior Lyons attended and graduated from Tulane University Law School. Like his father, he became a Shreveport oilman,<ref name=lyonsfamily>{{cite web|url=http://lyonsfamilytree.com/2007/11/20/charlton-havard-lyons-jr/|title=Charlton Havard Lyons, Jr.|publisher=WordPress|accessdate=August 23, 2014}}</ref> but a political [[Independent voter|Independent]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/voter.aspx|title=Charlton Lyons, December 1921|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=August 23, 2014}}</ref> Charlton Lyons, Jr., was active in community theatre as an actor and singer and was a benefactor of countless charitable drives for the YMCA, Genevieve Orphanage, and many other organizations.<ref name=chljrobit/> Between 1945 and 1956, Charlton and Susybelle had five daughters and one son, but the couple<ref name=lyonsfamily/> later divorced.<ref name=obit/> Susybelle's brother-in-law, [[Hall M. Lyons|Hall McCord Lyons]], while living in [[Lafayette]], was the Republican nominee for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district seat in 1966 and subsequently the American Independent Party choice for the [[United States Senate]] in 1972, having lost out to the Democrat [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], also of Shreveport, and former Governor [[John J. McKeithen]], a Democrat running as an Independent. The seat was vacant because of the death of Senator [[Allen J. Ellender]].<ref name=tpolgr/>

Lyons was the daughter-in-law of [[Charlton Lyons]], often considered the "father" of the revived 20th century Louisiana [[Republican Party]],<ref>"Charlton H. Lyons," ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 1 (1988), pp. 528–529.</ref> and Marjorie Hall Lyons (1895-1971), for whom the theater at [[United Methodist Church|United Methodist]]-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport is named. In August 1944, at St. Bartholemew's [[Episcopal Church]] in [[New York City]], Susybelle Wilkinson wed Charlton Havard Lyons, Jr. (1921-2019),<ref name=chljrobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=charlton-havard-lyons-jr&pid=193541860|title=Charlton Havard Lyons, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 3, 2019}}</ref> a graduate of [[Yale University]] then stationed with the [[United States Army]] in Augusta, [[Georgia]]. That summer, Susybelle was living on [[Long Island]], where her father, who had been an Army officer in [[World War I]], was a colonel in [[World War II]]. The couple first resided in [[New Orleans]], where Lyons, Jr., had been born on December 11, 1921 though he immediately moved with his parents to Shreveport, where he spent the majority of his life. After the war, the junior Lyons attended and graduated from Tulane University Law School. Like his father, he became a Shreveport oilman,<ref name=lyonsfamily>{{cite web|url=http://lyonsfamilytree.com/2007/11/20/charlton-havard-lyons-jr/|title=Charlton Havard Lyons, Jr.|publisher=WordPress|accessdate=August 23, 2014}}</ref> but a political [[Independent voter|Independent]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/voter.aspx|title=Charlton Lyons, December 1921|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=August 23, 2014}}</ref> Charlton Lyons, Jr., was active in community theatre as an actor and singer and was a benefactor of countless charitable drives for the YMCA, Genevieve Orphanage, and many other organizations.<ref name=chljrobit/> Between 1945 and 1956, Charlton and Susybelle had five daughters and one son, but the couple<ref name=lyonsfamily/> later divorced, and Lyons, Jr. wed the former Peggy McClure.<ref name=obit/> Susybelle's brother-in-law, [[Hall M. Lyons|Hall McCord Lyons]], while living in [[Lafayette]], was the Republican nominee for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district seat in 1966 and subsequently the American Independent Party choice for the [[United States Senate]] in 1972, having lost out to the Democrat [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], also of Shreveport, and former Governor [[John J. McKeithen]], a Democrat running as an Independent. The seat was vacant because of the death of Senator [[Allen J. Ellender]].<ref name=tpolgr/>

==Political, business, and philanthropic activities==

==Political, business, and philanthropic activities==

In 1996, Lyons served as the co-chairwoman with Marilyn S. Joiner, the director of marketing and public relations for the Willis-Knighton Health System in Shreveport,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wkhs.com/news/NewsDetails/07-05-01/marilyn_s_joiner_named_marketer_of_the_year.aspx|title=Marilyn S. Joiner Named Marketer of the Year|date=May 1, 2007|publisher=wkhs.com|accessdate=August 25, 2014}}</ref> of the YWCA's $1.1 million capital campaign drive.<ref name=tst/>  

In 1996, Lyons served as the co-chairwoman with Marilyn S. Joiner, the director of marketing and public relations for the Willis-Knighton Health System in Shreveport,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wkhs.com/news/NewsDetails/07-05-01/marilyn_s_joiner_named_marketer_of_the_year.aspx|title=Marilyn S. Joiner Named Marketer of the Year|date=May 1, 2007|publisher=wkhs.com|accessdate=August 25, 2014}}</ref> of the YWCA's $1.1 million capital campaign drive.<ref name=tst/>  

Lyons was a [[Patronage|patron of the arts]]: the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1948, of which Hall Lyons was once the president;<ref>Hall McCord Lyons obituary, ''The Shreveport Times'', July 26, 1998.</ref> the Shreveport Opera, which has hosted Beverly Sills and Leontyne Price,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveportopera.org/about.html|title=About Shreveport Opera|publisher=shreveportopera.org|accessdate=August 25, 2014}}</ref> and the Shreveport Little Theater, which dates to 1922. Her mother, Margaret Wilkinson, was also active in the Shreveport YWCA and the Shreveport Opera.<ref name=wilkinsonfamily/>

Lyons was a [[Patronage|patron of the arts]]: the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1948, of which Hall Lyons was once the president;<ref>Hall McCord Lyons obituary, ''The Shreveport Times,'' July 26, 1998.</ref> the Shreveport Opera, which has hosted Beverly Sills and Leontyne Price,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveportopera.org/about.html|title=About Shreveport Opera|publisher=shreveportopera.org|accessdate=August 25, 2014}}</ref> and the Shreveport Little Theater, which dates to 1922. Her mother, Margaret Wilkinson, was also active in the Shreveport YWCA and the Shreveport Opera.<ref name=wilkinsonfamily/>

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>