MACK LYON

Nov. 19, 1921 - Aug. 5, 2015 EDMOND Joseph Mack Lyon was born Nov. 19, 1921, to Earl C. Lyon & Inez Weatherby Lyon in Muskogee, OK. He departed this life on Aug. 5, 2015, at the age of 93 at home. He was a graduate of Coalgate, OK High School. He attended Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, TN and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Oklahoma some years later. Mack was preceded in death by his father and mother; his sister, Earlene Adams; his brother, Bill Lyon; and his sister, Erma Siegworth. His wife of fifty-three years, Golda Eaton Lyon, passed away in 1996. He is survived by his wife, Lois Duncan Lyon; daughter, Jo Ann Lyon, of Oklahoma City; son, Chris Lyon, and daughter-in-law, Glenna Lyon, of Van Buren, AR; his son-in-law and stepdaughter, Butch and Jill Wallace, of Tallahassee, FL; and stepson and daughter-in-law, Tim and Kayla Duncan, of Orlando, FL. Mack has numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren as well as nieces and nephews. Mack began his preaching in Coalgate, OK Nov. 12, 1939, at the age of 17, and he never looked back. He and his family spent almost three years as missionaries in Perth, Western Australia, in the 1960s. After returning home, he continued local ministry, and in 1980, he began IN SEARCH OF THE LORD'S WAY a television/ media ministry now overseen by the Edmond, OK Church of CHRIST with outreach around the globe. Mack Lyon loved the BIBLE passage I Timothy, Chapter 1, Verse 12: "And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry." Visitation will be at the Edmond Church of Christ on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, 4-8 p.m. Memorial service will also be at the Edmond Church of Christ Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to IN SEARCH OF THE LORD'S WAY, P.O. Box 371, Edmond, OK 73083.