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Staff Sgt. Larry Lyons grave registration.
Roselawn Cemetery: Larry J. Lyons' plot is located in the Vietnam Garden, lot #10, block B, space #4.
N36 degrees 15.959' W 082 degrees 17.180'
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Date of birth:
19 July 1941Date of death: 6 April 1968
County: Carter
Hometown: Johnson City
Service Branch: Army
Division/Assignment: 35th Engineering Group, 18th Engineering Brigade
Conflict: Vietnam
Awards: Purple Heart, Bronze Star
Burial/Memorial Location: Roselawn Memorial Park, Johnson City, Washington County, TN
Location In Memorial: Pillar XXII, Middle Panel
The Johnson City Press, 9 April 1968
Staff Sgt. Larry J. Lyons, 26, Rt. 2, died in Vietnam Saturday as a result of fragment wounds received while on an airbase which came under hostile mortar attack. He had been in the service for 8 ½ years and had been in Vietnam for the past 10 months. Staff Sgt. Lyons was a graduate of Happy Valley High School, class of 1959, and attended Buffalo Valley Christian Church. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Peggy Young Lyons, Rt. 2; one daughter, Sherrie Lee Lyons, of the home; one son, Larry J. Lyons, of the home; his father, George L. Lyons, Rt. 4, Elizabethton; his mothers, Mrs. Cora Burleson, Rt. 6; one sister, Mrs. Tootsie Carr, Rt. 1, Watauga; one brother, Wayne Lyons, Rt. 6.
Staff Sergeant Larry Jerome Lyons was born on July 19, 1941, and was originally from Johnson City, Tennessee. He later moved to Carter County, where he was a graduate of Happy Valley High School in Elizabethton. He served his country in the Vietnam War in the United States Army, as a heavy construction equipment operator in C Company, 87th Engineering Battalion, 35th Engineering Group, 18th Engineering Brigade. He was an eight-year veteran of the Army when his tour in Vietnam began on June 12, 1967. Nearly ten months later, on April 6, 1968, SSgt. Lyons was killed under hostile conditions from an artillery explosion in Tuyen Duc province, South Vietnam; he was 26 years old at the time of his death. SSgt. Lyons is memorialized on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Panel 48E, Line 29.
*All information for this individual was gathered from the East Tn Veterans Memorial webpage, honorstates.com, abmc.gov, find a grave webpage, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund webpage and family contributions.
Shared Memories
I want you to know how proud I am of you for having the courage to give up your life in defending our country. I can honestly say that I would have a hard time being that brave. I offer my condolences to your family and loved ones, for I know that they did miss you, and still are missing you. You will never be forgotten. God bless you.
--Whitney Lyons
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