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May 22, 2025
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8pm on Tuesday, May 27th, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held the following day, Wednesday, May 28th, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne at 10:30am.
Internment will be Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
Owen Lyon, age 92, of Wayne, passed away Thursday, May 22nd, 2025.
Born to Charles and Edna Lyon in West Orange, New Jersey, he graduated from Seton Hall Prep in 1951 before earning a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Seton Hall University.
Fresh out of college, Owen began cutting the grass at PSE&G’s local office, and forty-five years later proudly retired as one of their well noted Project Managers, VP.
Before leaving to serve in the Korean War as a U.S. Army gun specialist Owen met and proposed to the true love of his life, Frances Cort of South Orange, beginning a six-decade long love story. According to Owen, from the moment he spotted her at the Cricklewood Store soda shop, he “knew she was the girl” for him– even inviting himself along on her dates with other boys as a self-appointed chaperone. After returning home from the war, Owen and Fran were married on May 28, 1955 at Our Lady of Sorrows in South Orange.
Owen often said the pair were “well married”, as they had six priests on the altar and a Papal Blessing secured by the Passionist Brothers. They had a reception at the Condor in Livingston, and drove to their honeymoon in Miami, Florida. Owen and Fran enjoyed a loving and caring marriage for sixty-four years, both here in Wayne, and at their summer home in Long Beach Island.
In addition to being a loving husband, Owen was a devoted father and grandfather, survived by his daughter Karen, and husband John Holmes, of Perkasie, PA; daughter Sharon, and husband Paul Giordano, of Lincoln Park; son Tom Lyon, and partner Joe Breen of Montclair; and pre-deceased by his infant daughter, Joanne. He leaves cherished grandchildren, John and Julie Holmes of Long Valley, NJ; Justin and Alise Holmes of Perkasie, PA; Jessica and Derek Fromm of Quakertown, PA; Taylor Giordano of Springfield, and Michael Giordano of Lincoln Park; as well as great-grandchildren Mila Rose Holmes, Brody Holmes, Jackson Holmes, Dylan Homes, Charlotte Rae Holmes, Colton Fromm, Caleb Fromm, and Avery Fromm. Sadly, Owen also leaves behind his best friend, and constant companion Riley, his seven-year-old feisty yet devoted Shitzu.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to WOUNDED WARRIORS
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8pm on Tuesday, May 27th, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held the following day, Wednesday, May 28th, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne at 10:30am.
Internment will be Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
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