La Grange Park, Illinois
Aug 17, 1932 – May 10, 2023
Nona Plessner Lyons, age 90, formerly of Kennebunk, Maine passed away peacefully Wednesday May 10th at Plymouth Place Senior Living, LaGrange Park, Illinois. He husband of 54 years, Robert Lyons and family friend, Paddy Homan were at her bedside. Nona "lived and laughed and loved and left" and...
Read MoreBob,My family and I are so very sad to hear about Nonas passing.She was a lovely lady and the epitome of grace.I only wish that when we lived close by that I had walked to your home and gotten to know her better,I was very intimidated then.She was wonderful to talk to when we met in town.Our condolences to you and her friends.
Elizabeth Post
May 21, 2023 | Friend
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Helen Freidus
May 18, 2023 | New York, NY
Thinking of you Bob. Nona will be a huge loss. Love from all of us in Abu Dhabi and UCC
Siobhan O' Sullivan
May 18, 2023 | Friend
Nona was a stalwart worker for open ended inquiry and interrogating the contexts that frame our understandings and practice. She was a generous teacher and mentor and inspired so many others to reframe their professional engagement with the real issues of the classroom whether it was teacher education, science education or the arts. She was a beautiful human being who had a way of bringing people together around a table to discuss real issues. Not for her the formulaic but rather the...
Anne Rath
May 18, 2023 | Friend
I had the pleasure of meeting Nona at a Lyons family reunion many years ago. I so enjoyed talking to her and as an educator myself, I was so impressed by her work. I know Bob will miss her so much. They had such a rich and wonderful life together.
Mary Charlotte Safford
May 17, 2023
Nona was an amazing woman! She will be missed. Kathleen O´Connor
Kathleen O´Connor
May 16, 2023
