WHITE STONE—Myron “Mike” Edwin Lyman Sr. born May 3, 1931, in Cambridge, N.Y., passed away peacefully at 92 on October 25, 2023. He was a resident of White Stone for the last 17 years.
He is survived by sons, Myron Jr. of Perry, Ga., Dwight D. Lyman of Atlanta, Ga., and the family of his late son, Craig A. Lyman of Bonaire, Ga. He has five grandchildren, Kimberly Cummings, Brian A. and Kevin L. Lyman, children of Craig, and Halley and Maia, daughters of Dwight Lyman and Laura Ross; and six great-grandchildren, Victoria and Kaylie Cummings, Phillip, Juniper and Jude Lyman, and Mason Lyman. He leaves a dear companion, Jean R. Ward, who resides in Maine.
Mike received a bachelor’s in agriculture at the University of Vermont in 1952. He managed a dairy farm in Vermont and was the main herdsman of a large dairy farm in Florida.
Drafted in the Army in 1954, he served in the Infantry for 25 years with tours in Korea, Germany and Vietnam, and is a graduate of the Army’s Command and General Staff College. In combat he was a district advisor in the Military Advisory Group Vietnam. His non-combat tours include being company commander and staff officer in many units and before retiring was the chief of the Army’s Personnel Management Team and chief of the Records Section, Military Personnel Center. He retired in 1979 with the rank of lieutenant colonel with a Regular Army commission.
His decorations include the Combat Infantry Badge, Airborne Badge, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal with cluster, Purple Heart with cluster, Vietnam Gallantry Cross with bronze and silver star, and Good Conduct Medal and various service medals.
Mike was a member of several lineage societies and has been especially active in the Virginia Society Sons of the American Revolution, serving as a chapter president and state burial chairman and editor/compiler of Genealogical, Burial and Service Data for Revolutionary War Patriots Buried in Virginia. While president of the Virginia Society War of 1812, he edited and compiled the book, Burials of War of 1812 Veterans in the Commonwealth of Virginia and was editor/compiler of an addendum to it. He co-edited Encounters With the British in Virginia During the War of 1812.
Mike was a past Virginia Governor of the Order of Founders and Patriots in America, a member of The Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry, The Society of Colonial Wars, The Society of Mayflower Descendants, The Society of the Sons & Daughters of the Pilgrims, The Society of Descendants of Colonial Clergy and The Sons of Union Veterans.
In the Northern Neck, he was an active member of the Richard Henry Lee Chapter SAR, The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library and the Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, November 4, at Currie Funeral Home in Kilmarnock. In lieu of flowers please make donations to the Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society, P.O. Box 716, Montross, VA 22520.
