Hall McCord Lyons

2. HALL McCORD LYONS, born 7:30 P. M., Saturday, December 22, 1923, at 1075 Erie Street, Shreveport, Louisiana. Hall was named for his mother’s family and for C. T. McCord, husband of Dorothy Hall McCord.
Hall attended South Highland and Southfield Grade Schools at Shreve­port, and Lawrenceville School. During World War II, Hall enlisted in the Naval Reserve and was assigned to study at Centenary College, and later, Louisiana Tech. He concluded his studies at the Naval School at North­western (Chicago) receiving his commission as Ensign. Hall was immediately assigned to duty at Leyte, Philippine Islands. Enroute to his assignment (Ernie Pyle, noted columnist also being a passenger) the plane developed engine trouble and was forced to land at Peleliu Island. When Hall reached Leyte, the small ship to which he had been assigned had already departed for the invasion of Okinawa. Hall followed on another ship but the ship to which he had been assigned was sunk in the invasion operations before he could reach it. He remained at Okinawa for eighteen months. At the War’s end, he was in command of U.S.S. L.C.T. 1326.
While on Okinawa, Hall improvised materials for a duck hunt, an ac­count of which was carried in the June 1, 1946 issue of "American Field."
Following the War, Hall entered L. S. U. He received a B. A. degree in January, 1949. Soon after graduation, Hall entered the oil business in San Antonio, Texas, with his father and cousin, N. Hall McCord. He later moved to Shreveport and became a member of the partnership of Lyons, McCord & Logan, now Lyons Petroleum. In 1960 Hall moved to Lafayette, Louisiana. He is now engaged in the oil producing business in Lafayette under the name of Hall M. Lyons. His father is in partnership with him.
Hall and Betty Sue Buffington were married at Denham Springs, Louisi­ana, on June 29, 1948. They were both students at L. S. U. Betty Sue is the daughter of Culver W. Buffington and the late Nevva Scott, of Dallas, Texas. Betty Sue was born at Dallas, on June 22, 1925. Hall and Betty Sue have four children:
a.   Culver Hall Lyons, born at Nix Memorial Hospital, San Antonio,
Texas, at 11:07 A. M., Friday, May 19, 1950.
b.   Marjorie Scott Lyons, born at Nix Memorial Hospital, San Antonio,
Texas, at 3 A. M., Friday, September 14, 1951.
c.   Cheryl Sue Lyons, born at Physicians & Surgeons Hospital, Shreve­
port, Louisiana, at 5:45 A. M., Tuesday, January 11. 1955.
d.   Michael Glenn Lyons, born at Schumpert Memorial Hospital, Shreve­
port, Louisiana, at 3:55 P. M., Saturday, January 4, 1958.
Hall and Betty Sue were divorced on June 29, 1960. Betty Sue later married Billy Carl McKeever. They were married at Dallas, Texas, on Au­gust 7, 1961. They live in Shreveport, Louisiana. Hall married Ann Barras of Baldwin, Louisiana, on August 17, 1962, at Aspen, Colorado. Hall and Ann live in Lafayette, Louisiana. They have one child:
*a.   Troy Dominic, born at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Lafayette, Louisiana, at 4:32 P. M., February 4, 1965. The publication of this family history was held up pending the birth of Troy Lyons. The printer remarked that in all his years of experience, this was the first time he had ever been instructed to "hold the press" because of the arrival of the stork.