Dennis Lyons:  

CLASS OF 1961
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Arvada High SchoolClass of 1961
Arvada, CO
Gillespie, IL
Taylorville, IL

Dennis's Story

Dennis is from Olathe, Colorado. Dennis's schools include Arvada High School, Memorial Elementary School, Maple Street Primary School. Colorado University Mesa Jr. College. US Army 1965-68 US and Germany. Stayed around and played around that old town too long...had a concrete construction company in Granby Co from 72-76. Met Jesus Christ is '76 after a business collapse. He delivered me from alcohol...yes and amen! Went home and took care of my Grandmother and worked at the Fed Center at nights....Dad had passed away in 68....divorced Janet Smith in '68 or she divorced me....came to the Western Slope of Colorado (Montrose) in 79 to help run a restaurant/night club....didn't work out and managed a restaurant in Delta for a year....most of my life I've worked in construction type jobs and worked on my own in concrete, remodel, roofing, painting, drywall, new home starts, Remarried in 1981 to a local Delta woman and we were married for 34 years....parted now. Went to Wounded Knee South Dakota and Gordon Nebraska to minister to the Oglala Lakota Sioux in 2011-2014. Bought a house in Gordon and would go for 3 or 4 weeks and come back to Olathe Co for a week or so and then back...608 miles one way....the finest years of my life....I'm still in contact with many of the folks their and pray for them and such....in 2008 went on prayer journeys throughout the US praying where God would lead me to go to pray...went wi...Expand for more
th a group to Washington State led by a Pastor from Zambia...interesting.... We had timeshares in Orlando and used them every year for at least 12 years taking our families. Good memories and of course we traded for other locales. We were able to connect with Thom Dildine and his wife Carol on several trips as they lived in Boca Raton....spent many falls fishing the Brule River in northern Wisconsin (home of my father) for large Brown and Rainbow Trout....always a wonderful time....would fish at night from a canoe on a very wide spot on the river....in total darkness....all's you would see is the froth of the water as the fish hit the tope lure....awesome....was able to take one journey back to Illinois where I was raised in Gillispie and Taylorville....God did special things for me on those trips....but none as special as he time ministering to the Sioux....no....all were special....I've 3 children...one boy....2 girls....one daughter lives close the other in Brighton and my son in Manhattan Ka....7 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren! I was able to travel much of Europe while stationed there and lived in Holland in 1963 until JFK was shot and I came home....I still follow Jesus and am hoping to get back out into the field in ministry work...God is good and His mercy endures forever....seek Him and He will seek you and receive His Son as Savior....Jesus...there is nothing better than a life with HIM....
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