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Article: A super superego. (lawyer Pat Lyons)(Column)(Obituary)
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- May 19, 1995
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I was back in my hometown, on Lake Superior, for a golf tournament. After learning that Pat Lyons was in Saint Mary's Hospital, dying of cancer, my wife and I rushed there. We were turned away by the floor nurse, a ruddy, cheerful lady who said Pat was so ill there would be no visitors. I persisted: "I must see him. This man changed my life." The nurse winked and told us to wait, that she would check with her superior. As we sat there, I had time to think about Pat.
While we were growing up, Pat Lyons was the best-known bachelor in Duluth, not because of his power, money, or being the "town eligible," but because of "Pat Lyons's Boys."
I first met Pat when I ...