A Precious Gift for a Widowed Husband
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Tom and Lillian Lyons married in 1946. They lived a long and loving life raising a family on the south side of Chicago. Lillian was singing opera professionally when she and Tom met, and it was her voice that first made Tom fall in love. After Lillian’s death, an unexpected discovery would reunite Tom with Lillian’s voice on Tom’s 97th birthday for one last song.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
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| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, the show where America is the |
| 0:50.7 | star and the American people. |
| 0:53.0 | This next story comes to us from the south suburbs of Chicago. |
| 0:57.0 | Tom Lyons met his wife Lillian back in 1946, |
| 1:02.0 | and they remained married until the love of Tom's life passed in 2020. |
| 1:08.0 | Lillian, who was an opera singer in Chicago for 18 years, was 91 when she passed. |
| 1:15.4 | On Tom's 97th birthday, he received a gift from his son, Jarlet, that words alone cannot describe. |
| 1:23.6 | This is the story of that gift, an unearthed treasure that brought joy and life to his father. |
| 1:30.6 | And for just a moment, through the magic of technology and art, brought a bit of heaven to earth. |
| 1:38.6 | Here's Jarleth to tell this remarkable story. |
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