Percy James Lyons Jr.

Published 12:01 am Friday, September 15, 2017

April 25, 1951 – Sept. 13, 2017

BATON ROUGE — Services for Percy James Lyons Jr., 66, of Geismer, La., who died Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, at his residence, will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Beechgrove Baptist Church, 9455 Elmgrove St., Baton Rouge, with the Rev. Marshall Hall officiating.   

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

Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. until service time only at the church.

Mr. Lyons was born April 25, 1951, in Vidalia, the son of Percy Lyons Sr. and Mary Louise Bowser Lyons.

He was educated in the Concordia Parish School System and was employed by Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, for 37 years in the department of agriculture.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Leontine; and one daughter, Florence.

Survivors include six children, Patrice, Flora, Melvin, Joyce, Veronica and Jason, and their offspring and spouses; three sisters, Catherine Cartwright and husband, Oliver, Helen Lyles, all of Vidalia, and Frances Moore of New Orleans; a dozen grandchildren; two aunts, two uncles; his church family of Little Rising Sun Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, St. James Baptist Church in Ridgecrest and Ferriday; and a number of other relatives and friends.

Online condolences may be sent to concordiafuneralhomeinc.com.