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May 17, 1963  Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio
Chester Lawson
    Chester Lawson, 66, died yesterday at Middletown Hospital where he had been a patient since May 6.  He retired a year ago as a stationary engineer at Aeronca Manufacturing Corp.  Prior employment in the Gardner Division of Diamond National.  Born in Frenchburg, Ky he had lived most of his life in Middletown.  Surviving are his wife Martha; daughters Edna Williams and Louise Moon of Middletown and Roxie Delude of Cleveland; son Robert of Denver, Colo; sisters Mary Cox of Germantown and Hazel Williams of Carliste; brother Clifford, Othie and Raymond of Middletown and Lafe of Germantown.  Services held at John R. Baker Funeral Home.

Eileen Shelton: DOB 16 Jan 1898 Frenchburg, Menifee County, Ky.  DOD 16 May 1963.  He was the s/o  Levi Hansford Lawson and Margaret Hayes

August 19, 1969  Monday  Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio
Cud H. Lawson
    Cud H. Lawson, 82, died yesterday at Middletown Hospital where he had been a patient since April 18.  He was a retired building contractor and had lived in Middletown  60 years.  Surviving are his wife Peggy; daughter Mrs. Walter Moore of Blanchester, Mrs. Howard Ingles of Clarksville, Mrs. Russel Lutekhus of Deerfield, Ill, Mrs. R. C. Taylor of Trenton and Miss Janet Lawson at home;  sons, Albert of Corpus Christi, Tex., Leonard of Shelbyville, Ind., and William of Milton, Ky.; two brothers, Otis and Tom Creekbaum of Middletown; sister, Mrs. Jenny Michael and Mrs. Lena Richter of Middletown;  24 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.  Services held at the Full Gospel Tabernacle with the Rev. Leonard Collins officiating.  Burial in Woodside Cemetery.  Joseph R. Baker home in charge.

Eileen Shelton: DOB 9 Jul 1885 Morgan County, Ky.  DOD 17 Aug 1969.  Cud Hanks Lawson was the s/o David Lawson and Melissa Jane Lawson.  He was first married to Gerti May Gunnel 16 May 1903.  Second to Peggy Trent.

Ernest Lawson
    Services for Ernest Lawson, 78, Trenton will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Breitenbach-McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home, the Rev Paul Hensley officiating.  Burial will be in Butler County Memorial park.  He died on Saturday at the Middletown Regional Hospital.  Survivors include daughter Patricia Rose with whom he had been living and daughter Geraldine Thomson of Camden; one son James of Wichita Falls, Texas;  five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.  His wife Ollie died in 1983.

Eileen Shelton: DOB 12 Sep 1907 Morgan County, Ky.  Listed as nephew on censuses to William and Cora Lawson.  DOD 18 Jan 1986.  Wife  Ollie H. Swartz b. 30 Dec 1907 Bath Co. Ky and d. 15 Apr 1983 Middletown, Ohio

December 18, 1964  Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio
Mrs. Girtie Lawson
    Mrs. Girtie Lawson, 79, of Hamilton, formerly of Middletown died yesterday at Hughes Memorial Hospital after a two week illness.  Surviving are her husband C. M. Lawson; sons, Leonard of Lebanon, Albert of Mt. Orab and William of Milton, Ky.; daughters Mrs. Walter Moore of Manchester, Mrs. James Lutekhus of Formosa and Mrs. Harold Ingles of Clarksvilles; brother Ten Gunnel of Lawrenceburg, Tenn.  Services Monday at the Pentecostal Highway Of Holiness Church in Hamilton with burial in Woodside Cemetery.  Webb Funeral home in charge.

Eileen Shelton: Middletown Journal 18 Dec 1964   DOB Jul 1885  DOD 17 Dec 1964.  She was the d/o Ahira C. Gunnell and w/o Cud Hank Lawson.

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November 18, 1990 Sunday  Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio
Hazel Lawson
    Services held at the Joseph R. Baker Funeral home for Hazel B. Lawson, 93, who died on Thursday at the Barbara Park Convalescent Center.  Born in Wolfe County, Ky she had lived in this area most of her life.  She retired in 1960 from the Raymond Bag Co. and was a member of Moose Lodge No. 501.  Survived by daughters Louise Collins of Middletown, Roxie Delude of Lodi, Ohio and Norma Hill of Stonington, Conn.; son Herbert Cassidy of Middletown;  sisters Ida McGraw of Middletown, Dorothy Roark of Hamilton and Ethel Brewer of Cincinnati; 18 grandchildren.  Rev. Clifford Lawson, Jr. officiated service at the funeral home.  Burial in Woodside Cemetery.

Eileen Shelton: DOB 28 Feb 1897 Wolfe Co., Ky as Hazel Armina Comfort Brewer the d/o Gardner Brewer and Zelda T. Hollon.  DOD  15 Nov 1990. Wife first of Chester Lawson and then Oliver Cassidy

Owen Lawson
    Owen C. Lawson, 84, retired Armco blacksmith, died Wednesday at the home of his son Ova Lawson.  The oldest member of Middletown Jefferson Lodge 90 F&AM, he had received his 50-year pin seven years prior to his death.  Surviving are sons Ova and Jeff Lawson of Campton, Ky and a daughter Mrs. Clarice Payne of Middletown; two brothers, Bruce of Salt Lick, Ky and Cud Lawson of Middletown; one sister Mrs. Charles Reichter of Middletown;p 12 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.  Services held at Joseph R. Baker Funeral Home with the Rev. D. A. Biggs officiating.  Burial in Woodside Cemetery.

Eileen Shelton: DOD 4 Feb 1953  DOB 16 Apr 1859, Breathitt County, Ky  Son of David Lawson and Frances Lawson.   Husband of Nancy Belle Brewer and Delilah Lida Belle Lawson.

Seney E. Lawson
    Mrs. Seney E. Lawson, 78, of Middletown died Tuesday night in Grandview Hospital, Dayton, Ohio.  She was a member of the Church of God in Middletown.  Surviving are daughters; Lillie Peters, Lucy Collins, Nannie Noble of Lebanon; Carrie Clay, Louie Markland, Bulah Watts of Middletown; Lorence Yancy of Dayton and a son Ed Lawson of Middletown; sisters Nannie Peters of Dayton and Ora Carr of Jackson, Ky; a brother John Tackett of Ky.  Services held in the Oswald Broadway Chapel and burial in Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio

Eileen Shelton: Born Seney Elizabeth Tackett 4 Sept 1881 to George B. McClellan Tackett and Mary Ann Lawson in Morgan County, Ky.  DOD 22 Marcy 1960.  Wife of David C. Lawson. 

April 21, 1967  Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio
William Lawson
    Native of Wolfe County, Ky, William Bruce Lawson, 84, of Camden died yesterday at home.  A resident of the Middletown area for 53 years he had been a stationary engineer before retirement.  He had also operated the Lawson Real Estate Co. and had been a Pentecostal minister for 47 years.  Surviving are his wife Cora; son Ernest of Middletown; brother C. H. Lawson of Middletown; sister Lena Reichter of Middletown and two half-brother Otis and Thomas Creekbaum of Middletown; half-sister Mrs. Jenny Michael of Middletown;  three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.  Services held at the Full Gospel Tabernacle with Rev. Vernon Hornsby and Rev. Leonard Collins officiating.  Burial in the Butler County Memorial Park.. McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home in charge.

Eileen Shelton: DOB 25 Aug 1882  DOD 20 Apr 1967 He was the s/o David Lawson and Melissa Jane Lawson and h/o Cora M. Craft.

January 22, 1960  Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio
William B. Lawson
    A native of Beattyville, Ky., William B. Lawson, 67,  had been a resident of Middletown 45 Years. He died yesterday at his home.  Services Saturday at the Joseph R. Baker and Sons Funeral Home, Rev. Clifford Hutchinson and Rev. Henry Howard officiating.  Burial in the Elk Creek Cemetery.  Surviving are daughters Arna Faye Griffith of Middletown and Oneida Kent Of Dayton; two sister, Rose Whisman and Nellie Calhoun of Middletown; brother Sherman of Beattyville, Ky; four grandchildren.

Eileen Shelton: DOB Jan 1893 Beattyville, Lee County Ky.  Son of William J. Lawson and Mary Jane Bowman.  DOD 20 Jane 1960.  Husband of Dollie Edwards.