William W. "Buddy" Lyons Jr.

William W. "Buddy" Lyons Jr. -WARNER ROBINS - William W. "Buddy" Lyons Jr., 62, passed away Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Funeral services will be held at 11A.M. Friday, October 3, 2008 in the chapel of Heritage Memorial Funeral Home. Interment will follow with full military honors in Parkway Memorial Gardens. The Reverend Sydney Odom and Mr. Tommy Donaldson will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Thursday, October 2, 2008 at Heritage Memorial Funeral Home. -Mr. Lyons was born on August 13, 1946 in the Panama Canal Zone. He was the son of the late William Warren and Lillian E. (Wade) Lyons Sr. He was a retired MSGT serving with the United States Marine Corps, a Vietnam veteran, a surveyor and draftsman with Donaldson Garrett & Associates Inc., an avid fisherman and member of Central Baptist Church. -Survivors include his wife, Wanna S. Lyons; children, William (Casey) Lyons, Rachel Lyons and Andrew (Amanda) Lyons, all of Warner Robins; two grandchildren, Amerie Lyons and Andrew Lyons; mother-in-law, Sharon E. Bryant of Warner Robins; sister, Twila Nyland of Burke, VA; brother, Mark A. Lyons of Woodbridge, VA; nephews, Tony Winchell, Ryan Orr and William A. Lyons of Virginia and several other nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a nephew, Mark J. Lyons and two brothers, Homer A. Wade and John A. Lyons. -The family requests that donations be made to Hospice Care Options, 1125 Walnut Street, Macon, Georgia 31201 or Heart of Georgia Hospice, 103 Westridge Drive, Warner Robins, Georgia 31088. -Heritage Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. William Lyons, Jr.