Marriage and Associations
Charlton and Marjorie Lyons had two sons: Charlton Havard Lyons, Jr. (born 1921), a Shreveport oilman, and Hall M. Lyons (1923-1998) of Lafayette and later Grand Isle, a former Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives and an Independent nominee for the U.S. Senate. One of the Lyons daughters-in-law was Shreveport socialite and philanthropist Susybelle Lyons, later divorced from Charlton, Jr., who is now married to the former Peggy McClure. Susybelle Lyons' father, W. Scott Wilkinson, a prominent Shreveport attorney, served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1920-1924.
Lyons was a member of the Masonic lodge, American Legion, Shreveport Country Club, and the Kappa Alpha Order and Phi Delta Phi fraternities. He was a member of the boards of both Tulane and Centenary. He was considered by friend and political rival alike as a man of great optimism and impeccable character. Virginia deGravelles of Lafayette, the Louisiana Republican national committeewoman from 1964-1968, called him a "wonderful, compassionate man." Lyons was a vestryman of the Episcopalian Church though a trustee of Methodist-affiliated Centenary College.
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