Mamie Lyons

Published 12:00 am Friday, March 9, 2012

Sept. 16, 1914 – March 4, 2012

VIDALIA — Services for Mamie “Daddy” Lyons, 97, of Vidalia, who died Sunday, March 4, 2012, at Riverland Medical Center in Ferriday, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Stephen Baptist Church in Vidalia with the Rev. Leon Dixon officiating.

Burial will follow at the Vidalia Cemetery under the direction of Concordia Funeral Home in Ferriday.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Lyons was born Sept. 16, 1914, in Vidalia, the daughter of Noah and Memie Harden Brown.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Herman Lyons; her parents; two daughters, Diane Bates and Gloria Hudson; and one granddaughter, Valeria Lyons.

Survivors include one daughter, Betty Miller; one son, Ernest Lyons and wife, Johnnie Mae, all of Vidalia; 20 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; 19 great-great-grandchildren.

Online condolences may be sent to www.concordiafuneralhomeinc.com.