Lyons Center

The John P. Lyons Center re-opened on Monday June 3, 2013 after a $4.9 million renovation. The Lyons Center had been closed since Hurricane Katrina. This project was assisted by an $115,000 donation by Chevron for a new dance studio and $25,000 from NFL Foundation for a new computer lab as part of the Super Bowl Legacy Project.

About John P. Lyons
1913 – 1945 (age 31)


by Robert A. Lyons, Jr.
Slidell, Louisiana
May 31, 2013


John Patrick Lyons, Jr. was born on November 11, 1913 on the corner of St. Thomas and Felicity Streets and delivered by a German mid-wife in New Orleans, Louisiana. John is the second son and sixth child of John Patrick Lyons and Margaret Burke Lyons. After John finished grammar school at St. Alphonsus, he attended Jesuit High School, but later graduated from St. Alphonsus High School in 1931. St. Alphonsus later changed to Redemptorist High School (1937 – 1980). In later years the name was changed to Redeemer High School (1980 – 1994) and then moved to Gentilly and merged with Seton Academy (1994 - 2006) to become Redeemer-Seton Academy. Redeemer-Seton was purchased by Holy Cross High School and torn down after significant damage by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The new Holy Cross High School was built on this new location after the old Holy Cross was destroyed by Katrina in the Lower 9th Ward.

John never married and had no children. John worked for Anderson-Clayton as a buyer of cotton and he later worked for the Cotton Exchange as