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- "Elizabethton Star," Monday, December 20, 1943
Local Man Killed In Car Accident
Clarence H. Lyons, age 27, died Saturday morning at eight o'clock from injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Lawrenceville, Virginia. He was employed in the shipyards at Portsmouth, Va. and was en route home for the week-end when the accident occurred.
Mr. Lyons was a native of Carter county and a member of the Harmony Baptist church.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Grace Lyons, father, Landon Lyons, step-mother, Mrs. Cora Lyons; one sister, Mrs. Ralph Myers; one half-sister, Miss Marjorie Lyons, all of Elizabethton; four brothers, Roy E. Lyons, Knoxville; William A. Lyons, Earl and Howard Lyons, of Elizabethton; and a number of nephews and nieces.
Funeral services were conducted from the Harmony Baptist church this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with the Rev. D. L. Brainard and Orville Richards officiating.
Burial will be made in the church cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Glen Matheson, Charles Davis, Jim Myers, Carl Lyon, Howard Marshall, Manyard Ryan.
The Roy Hathaway Funeral Home was in charge.
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