J. Herbert Lyons, 86, service manager at auto dealership.
J. Herbert Lyons, a retired auto dealership service manager who was active in Masonic affairs, died Monday from complications of a stroke at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick.
The former Westminster resident was 86 and had lived at Asbury Methodist Home in Solomons since last year.
The native of Owings, Calvert County, came to Baltimore in the 1940s and worked at several auto dealerships, including Sherwood Ford in Govans, where he retired in 1979.
Mr. Lyons, who left school after the eighth grade to work on his family's tobacco farm, was proud of earning his high school equivalency diploma in the 1970s.
He was a member of Palestine Masonic Lodge No. 189, Catonsville; the Scottish Rite and Boumi Temple Shrine; and the Westminster Elks lodge.
He was married for 40 years to the former Helen Knight, who died in 1993.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Lee Funeral Home, 8125 Southern Maryland Blvd., Owings.
Also Friday, graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. at Mount Olive United Methodist Church in Randallstown, where he was a congregant.
He is survived by his wife, the former Marie McCready Hardesty, whom he married in 1997; two sons, James H. Lyons Jr. of Urbana, Ill., and William S. Lyons of Catonsville; a daughter, Lydia Iddings of Upperco; two sisters, Grace Sunderland of Gaithersburg and Laura Stauffer of Baltimore; and a granddaughter.
Carl H. Onken Sr., 90, engineer at Koppers Co.
Carl H. Onken Sr., a retired engineer and builder of model trains and ships, died Sunday of heart failure at St. Agnes HealthCare. He was 90 and lived at Charlestown Community in Catonsville.
The former Ellicott City resident retired in 1974 from the Koppers Co., where he had worked for 25 years. Earlier, he had worked at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point shipyard.
The East Baltimore native earned degrees in architecture and aeronautical engineering in 1928 and 1933, respectively, from the Maryland Institute, College of Art.
He built handmade scale models of steamships and trains.
In 1933, he married Junetta Appel, who died in 1979.
He was a member of Second English Lutheran Church in Southwest Baltimore.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Witzke Funeral Home, 1630 Edmondson Ave., Catonsville.
He is survived by his wife of 17 years, the former Addie Zinck; two sons, Carl H. Onken Jr. of Westchester, Ohio, and Gary Onken of Dover, Del.; a daughter, Patricia A. Salzman of Buffalo, N.Y.; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
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