Thomas Desmond Lyons (1911-1981)

Thomas Demond Lyons (1912-1981)

Obituary
Thomas Demond Lyons. Thomas Lyons Milwaukee businessman. Thomas D. Lyons, 69, of Fox Point, Wisconsin, formerly of Hyde Park, died of cancer Thursday in Columbia Hospital, Milwaukee. He was vice president of Carroom and Black Insurance Co. in Milwaukee. Mr. Lyons was born in Boston. He was graduated from Northeastern University in 1936 and did graduate work at Boston University. He joined Allis-Chalmers Co. in Hyde Park in 1937 and was transferred to the home office in West Allis, Wisconsin, in 1941. At Allis-Chalmers he served as comptroller and vice president. After World War II he was among a group of industrialists invited to Bulgaria to inspect a number of heavy machinery industrial plants. Mr. Lyons was active in business and community affairs in the West Allis area a number of years and was a past director of the Central Wisconsin Motor Transport Co. and a director of St. Mary's Hospital Lay Advisory Board, a member of the advisory board of Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee, and a treasurer of the West Allis Chamber of Commerce. He leaves his wife. Ruth (Keogh); two sons, Thomas J. and Michael Lyons, both of Milwaukee; three daughters, Ruth and Christine Lyons and Nancy Weber, all of Milwaukee; a sister, Mary Lyons of Needham; his mother, Ellen (Desmond) of Needham; and two grandchildren.