Iona Mae Hyvl

Iona Mae “Nonie” (Lane) Hyvl, age 76, passed away on 12 July 2023. Services will be held by Callaway-Jones Funeral Home and Tuesday 18 July from 4 to 6 PM followed by graveside service at Smetana Cemetery, Bryan, Texas on 19 July at 0900.

Nonie was born on 31 October 1946, in Bryan, Texas to G. Geneva Lane and Louis Edward Lane. She married Alton Lee Hyvl on 01 January 1989 and they shared 34.5 years of wedded bliss and devoted contentment. During her life she had many jobs and they included but were not limited to prison guard, cosmetology beautician, and domestic engineer. However, she was most noted for being a devoted wife to the love of her life, mother, sister, aunt, niece, cousin, and grandmother to all who knew her.

Nonie was exceptionally generous, courageous, and compassionate to everyone. She was a content homebody and enjoyed reading, playing bingo, cooking beans and whole cakes, providing for the charities of her choice, and watching her many television shows. She never wavered from telling the truth, even when the truth hurt. Her integrity and honor to her country, her family, and her friends knew no bounds. These traits served Nonie well throughout her life because as the oldest sibling, she was known as the matriarch of the family and was often sought out for her wisdom and opinion on life’s situations. The people that she met that were not immediate family became a part of her family and have said she was “the Momma they never had and was beloved by all”.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, one sister, and her daughter Georgia Ann. She is survived by her devoted husband, Alton Hyvl, daughters Cindy Stewart, Dorothy Redmond, and Robyn Heath. She is also survived by her sister Linda and her husband Rudy Schultz, seven grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and many aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews.

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