Obituaries

By Staff Reports Published

1:53 pm Thursday, October 13, 2016

Allie L. Lyons

Allie L. Lyons, age 84 of Phil Campbell, passed away Oct. 12.

Visitation will be Oct. 14 from noon to 1 p.m. at Akins Funeral Home Russellville. Funeral services will be Oct. 14 at 1 p.m. in the Chapel of Akins Funeral Home with Bro. Jeff South. Burial will be in Franklin Memory Gardens.

She is preceded in death by her parents, James T. and Lois Smith Hastings, and brothers Van Hastings and Carter Hastings.

She is survived by her husband Bobby E. Lyons, her sons Earl Lyons and Mark Lyons and wife Melissa, her sister Marie Wilson and husband Larry, brother James T. Hastings and grandson Marcus Lyons.

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