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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Deseret News Obituary for Lyon [ full citation needed ]
- 1 2 3 KBYU piece on Lyon Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine [ full citation needed ]
- ↑ Mormon Literature Database entry on Lyon [ full citation needed ]
- ↑ Utah Valley Chapter, American Guild of Organists commemoration for Lyon [ full citation needed ] Archived October 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- Church News, 1998-06-06, p.Z4 [ full citation needed ]
- We Shall Make Music: Stories of Primary Songs and How They Came to Be, p. 81 [ full citation needed ]
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