In Memory

Jenny Lee Vass* (Lyons)

Jenny Lee Vass Lyons, age 56, of 707 Maxwell Hill Road, Beckley, W.Va., died Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008, at the Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, following a sudden illness. Born on Aug. 10, 1952, at Beckley, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Elsworth M. and Frances L. Bolt Vass of MacArthur, W.Va. Mrs. Lyons was a 1970 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School and a 1971 graduate of the Beckley Beauty School. She was a Baptist and was a member of the Mt. Tabor Baptist Church. Mrs. Lyons was a lifelong resident of Raleigh County. Mrs. Lyons was also a member of the Scarlet Royals of The Red Hat Society. Her love of life was spending precious moments with the love of her life, her husband, Larry; her precious love of her little angel, Brianna; her love for Kimberly and Larry Jr.; and also the love she so desired for her only grandchild, her grandson, Tyler Lyons. She was a homemaker and the last member of her immediate family. Mrs. Lyons was preceded in death by a brother, Elsworth Jr., in 1944; a sister, Janet Lee Vass Rakes, in December 2001; a nephew, Bobby Lee Lane II, in February 2007; and her maternal grandmother, Rebecca Jane Sarver Bolt, in 1981. Survivors include her beloved husband of 37 years, Larry; three precious children that she loved with all her heart, two daughters, Brianna Meredith Lyons at home and Kimberly Ann Lyons Thombs and her husband Ronnie of Oak Hill, W.Va., and a son, Larry Lynn Lyons Jr. of Beckley, W.Va.; a grandson, Tyler Lyons of Beckley; a nephew, Kevin W. McVey of Los Angeles, Calif.; a niece, Sherry Stables of Princeton, W.Va.; a great-niece, Ashley “Nikki” Lane; and four great-nephews, Brian and Jeffery Lane, and Christopher and Brandon Stables. Funeral services will be conducted at noon on Wed-nesday, Sept. 3, 2008, at the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel in Beckley, with Pastor Michael King officiating. Burial will follow at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens at Prosperity, W.Va. Friends may call from 10 a.m. until service time on Wednesday. Pallbearers will be Ray Bolt, Larry Raines, James Bragg, D.J. Thompson, Bill Tyree, and Ronnie Pack Jr. Online condolences may be sent to our guest book at www.roseandquesenberry.net. Arrangements by Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home in Beckley







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