PAUL PRESTON CARLYON SR.
PAUL PRESTON CARLYON SR. OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI ON JANUARY 13, 1916. HE WAS THE SON OF THE LATE PHILLIP AND JULIA (THOMPSON) CARLYON. PAUL DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HIS RESIDENCE ON AUGUST 17, 2002 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY- SIX YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND FIVE DAYS .
PAUL WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MAY AMELIA BERGMANN ON APRIL 18, 1938 IN POTOSI, MISSOURI AND TO THIS UNION SEVEN CHILDREN WERE BORN AND ENOUGH LOVE FOR MANY OTHERS. MAY PRECEDED HER HUSBAND IN DEATH ALSO ON AUGUST 17TH, IN 1996.
HE IS SURVIVED BY TWO DAUGHTERS, ISABEL ARNDT AND HUSBAND JERRY OF HILLSBORO, MISSOURI AND NANCY WEEKLEY AND HUSBAND LEON OF UNIONVILLE, MISSOURI, SIX SONS, GERALD CARLYON AND WIFE MARY ANN OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI, HAROLD CARLYON AND WIFE JUDY OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, CHARLES CARLYON AND WIFE WILMA OF BISMARCK, MISSOURI, RALPH CARLYON AND WIFE LINDA OF LEADWOOD, MISSOURI, PAUL CARLYON JR. AND WIFE DIANNA OF DESLOGE, MISSOURI AND JAMES STEVEN SMITH OF PARK HILLS, MISSOURI, THIRTY-ONE GRANDCHILDREN, FIFTY-FOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT- GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER, SISTER-IN-LAW, JULIA CARLYON OF OVERLAND, MISSOURI, BROTHER-IN-LAW, GEORGE BERGMANN OF STOUTSVILLE, MISSOURI, SPECIAL NEIGHBORS, DENNIS AND JANE DEE, CLIFFORD HUBBS AND MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND VERY GOOD FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS WIFE AND PARENTS HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SISTER, AMELIA CARLYON, TWO BROTHERS, CLEVE CARLYON AND THOMAS CARLYON, ONE GRANDSON, RONALD DEWAYNE CARLYON AND ONE GREAT GRANDSON, JACOB FAULLER.
PAUL WAS A HARD WORKING MAN WHO ENJOYED FARMING AND RAISING CATTLE AND WAS RETIRED FROM ST. JOE LEAD COMPANY. PAUL INSTILLED ALL HIS WORK ETHICS TO HIS LOVING FAMILY. FOR RELAXATION PAUL ENJOYED RABBIT HUNTING AND CHASING RABBITS TOWARD HIS SONS. HE LIKED WATCHING BASEBALL, IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS PAUL PLAYED ON THE HOPEWELL BASEBALL TEAM AND WAS ONCE OBSERVED BY SCOUTS FROM THE ST. LOUIS BROWNS BASEBALL TEAM. HE LIKED TO CALL SQUARE DANCES AND SQUARE DANCING WITH MAY WHENEVER POSSIBLE. PAUL ENJOYED EATING AT HIS FAVORITE RESTAURANT, THE BLUE HAVEN, BUT HE ALWAYS DECLARED THAT MAY WAS THE BEST COOK EVER. PAUL WILL BE LOVINGLY REMEMBERED BY HIS FAMILY AND MANY FRIENDS.
VISITATION WAS HELD MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2002 FROM 3:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AND TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2002 FROM 10:00 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M. AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI, MISSOURI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2002 AT 1:00 P.M. WITH REVEREND GUY CONWAY OFFICIATING. MUSICAL SELECTIONS PLAYED FOR THE FUNERAL WERE, THE LAST MILE OF THE WAY, SWEET BY & BY AND PRECIOUS MEMORIES. BURIAL WAS IN THE HOPEWELL CEMETERY, HOPEWELL, MISSOURI. SERVING AS PALL BEARERS WERE JAMES CARLYON, TODD CARLYON, BRYAN CARLYON, MICK CARLYON, SCOTT CARLYON AND MARK WEEKLEY, HONORARY PALL BEARERS WERE BEN CARLYON, DAVID CARLYON, MATT CARLYON, DERRALL SHELTON, PAT ROLAND AND JERRY ARNDT.
SERVICES WERE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MOORE FUNERAL HOMES, POTOSI, MISSOURI