TITLE:  John "Jack" Lydiard

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Jun 2003

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LYDIARD, John
Entered into eternal rest on the afternoon of September 30, 2001. 
Residence, Mt. Pleasant, S.C. John "Jack" Lydiard was born November 
14, 1914, a son of Morton Douglas Lydiard and Helen Bonthron Lydiard.
He and his wife Martha Dennis Lydiard of West Chicago raised their 
family in Minneapolis, Minn. Jack was a commercial artist for 40 years.
He served in the Army during World War II, where he met Martha, whom 
he married in 1944 and enjoyed 53 years of marriage. He was a great 
story and joke teller, loved to read, sing and play the  piano. He was 
active as a photographer, life-long watercolor artist and art teacher 
in Minneapolis and later in Green Valley, Ariz., while in retirement. 
He had many other talents, including woodworking and the gift of gab. 
He had resided at the Franke Home in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., since the 
death of his beloved spouse, Martha Dennis Lydiard on February 6, 1997.
Jack is survived by two sons, John Morton Lydiard, III, and his wife, 
Terri of Bedford, N.H., and R. Bruce Lydiard, Ph.D., and his wife 
Kathleen T. Brady of Sullivan's Island, S.C., a daughter, Barbara 
Binsfield of Buffalo, Minn., seven grandchildren, John Morton Lydiard,
IV, and James Lydiard of Bedford, N.H., Monica Ann, Jessica Blair and 
Claire Cecelia Lydiard, of Sullivan's Island, S.C., Zachary and Andrew 
Binsfield of Buffalo, Minn. He will also be missed by his niece, 
Patricia Barga and family of Castle Rock, Colo., his nephew, Douglas 
Lydiard and family of Phoenix, Ariz., his brother-in-law, Lany Elgar 
and wife, Barbara Dennis Elgar of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and their 
children, Alan, Mary, and Robert Elgar; and brother-in-law, Robert 
Dennis and wife Lucette Dennis and family. All services will be 
private. Arrangements by J. HENRY STUHR, INC., DOWNTOWN CHAPEL.
(Published Oct 2, 2001)
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