Steve Lyman
Steve Lyman is a long-time resident of Tooele County and twenty-year member of Tooele Search and Rescue. He loves the peace, quiet, and good people where he currently resides in Erda, Utah, but still fondly recalls his boyhood days of playing neighborhood baseball where he grew up in Tooele—and even hitting his fair share of homeruns to take the championship!
Above all, though, Steve loves spending time with his family, which includes his wife, Julie, son Pake, daughter Sharon, and granddaughter, Priya. Steve has been an involved father and spent many years supporting his children in their passions for soccer and basketball. But life just got even sweeter when his beloved granddaughter, Priya, now 20 months old, came into the world. She simply melts his heart every time she says “grampa.” Steve is known to say that he is nothing without the love of his fantastic family.
In addition to his own love for sports, Steve has a bit of a green thumb and really enjoys working in the yard and gardening. Yet, again, his greatest passion is his family. According to Steve, whatever his family is interested in automatically becomes his own new hobby.
Steve studied Engineering Technology and has worked with Alliant Technology Materials Development Lab, Industrial Engineering, and was team lead in the Rocket Propellant Mix/Cast area. He currently works at Dugway Proving Ground as a Physical Science Technician.
With so much to live for as such a dedicated husband, father, grandfather, and citizen, Steve is fighting the good fight against the Advanced Prostate Cancer that he was diagnosed with in April 2015. He has already gone through very expensive and painful surgery and radiation and is currently braving hormone therapy and oral chemotherapy. Not only that, but he has completely changed his lifestyle as well—moving to a completely vegan, organic, and low sugar diet and incorporating healthy habits like daily exercise and meditation.
Steve says that cancer has affected every single aspect of his life—including his perspective on life. He now takes nothing for granted. He finds hope through his faith in God and in the quiet early hours of the morning as a new sun rises. Although he has seen much of the ugly side of life through this experience, he says that he has also seen the good that has come from common people caring for their fellow man and has felt the love of family, friends, and strangers alike.
His wife, Jami, agrees with him and says that one thing that has softened the blow of cancer is the love they have felt from friends and family. “Steve is simply amazing,” she declares. “He has to live daily with the side effects from (his cancer treatments) and yet he does this with a grace and dignity….and while still having a great sense of humor. He is the rock of our family–he always has been and continues to be. And yet cancer reminds us that even “the rock” is vulnerable.”
“The rock’s” motto? “When life kicks you in the teeth—smile with the teeth you have left.”
Above all, though, Steve loves spending time with his family, which includes his wife, Julie, son Pake, daughter Sharon, and granddaughter, Priya. Steve has been an involved father and spent many years supporting his children in their passions for soccer and basketball. But life just got even sweeter when his beloved granddaughter, Priya, now 20 months old, came into the world. She simply melts his heart every time she says “grampa.” Steve is known to say that he is nothing without the love of his fantastic family.
In addition to his own love for sports, Steve has a bit of a green thumb and really enjoys working in the yard and gardening. Yet, again, his greatest passion is his family. According to Steve, whatever his family is interested in automatically becomes his own new hobby.
Steve studied Engineering Technology and has worked with Alliant Technology Materials Development Lab, Industrial Engineering, and was team lead in the Rocket Propellant Mix/Cast area. He currently works at Dugway Proving Ground as a Physical Science Technician.
With so much to live for as such a dedicated husband, father, grandfather, and citizen, Steve is fighting the good fight against the Advanced Prostate Cancer that he was diagnosed with in April 2015. He has already gone through very expensive and painful surgery and radiation and is currently braving hormone therapy and oral chemotherapy. Not only that, but he has completely changed his lifestyle as well—moving to a completely vegan, organic, and low sugar diet and incorporating healthy habits like daily exercise and meditation.
Steve says that cancer has affected every single aspect of his life—including his perspective on life. He now takes nothing for granted. He finds hope through his faith in God and in the quiet early hours of the morning as a new sun rises. Although he has seen much of the ugly side of life through this experience, he says that he has also seen the good that has come from common people caring for their fellow man and has felt the love of family, friends, and strangers alike.
His wife, Jami, agrees with him and says that one thing that has softened the blow of cancer is the love they have felt from friends and family. “Steve is simply amazing,” she declares. “He has to live daily with the side effects from (his cancer treatments) and yet he does this with a grace and dignity….and while still having a great sense of humor. He is the rock of our family–he always has been and continues to be. And yet cancer reminds us that even “the rock” is vulnerable.”
“The rock’s” motto? “When life kicks you in the teeth—smile with the teeth you have left.”
