Alexandra Lyon Singer is the face behind the Lyon Family Foundation, which honors the legacy of Robert Lyon with the 4th annual Hoosier Ball and grant-based giving. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR // HAIR, MAKEUP & STYLING BY CONSTANTINE JAMES
In a tiny farmhouse off of Old Sutton Road in Barrington Hills, something was always broken and it was drafty during the winter. There were only two and a half bedrooms, but the Lyon family of seven came out from their home in Chicago and crowded in on weekends. There was something special about that house, in Barrington, and that time together as family. The late Robert Lyon knew this.
“I have my strongest memories from that house, which felt super rustic,” says Alex Lyon Singer, youngest daughter of Robert and Executive Director of the Lyons Family Foundation. “It reminded my dad of where he grew up in Greencastle, Indiana.”
A Hoosier fan, investment banker, philanthropist, and family man with a passion for golf, history, and great parties, Lyon lost a three-year battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in 2007. But not before he had established The Lyon Family Foundation in 2001.
“My dad was the rock for our family,” Singer says. “He was the most generous, kind-hearted person I have had in my life. He worked in Chicago since the day I was born, but he was a very small-town guy at heart.”
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