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| DUMAS - Robert Lester Dawson, 93, died Monday, April 18, 2005. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Morrison Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel with Darrell Rowell, longtime family friend, and Samuel G. Dawson, his son, officiating. Burial will be in Dumas Cemetery. Mr. Dawson was born in Shady Grove, Ark., on July 19, 1911, to Nila Elizabeth Wade Dawson and Samuel Wesley Dawson. His family came to eastern Oklahoma in a covered wagon in 1922, when Lester was 11, so the kids could go to high school. He was valedictorian of the 1929 senior class at Mazie, Okla., High School. He served in the Army for three years at Fort Warren, Wyo. He married Harriet Frances Gentry in Sapulpa, Okla., on Nov. 29, 1934. He worked his entire post-Army life for Phillips Petroleum in Tulsa, Okla., Okmulgee, Okla., Cactus and Dumas. He retired in 1972. He had been a Moore County resident since 1949 and was a member of Sixth and Meredith Church of Christ since that time. He was preceded in death by his wife in September 2001; a brother; two sisters; and a grandson, Westley Dawson. Survivors include a daughter, Sara Elizabeth Dawson Lacey and husband, Charles, of Amarillo; a son, Samuel G. Dawson and wife, Patsy Snodgrass, of Amarillo; two grandsons, Steve Lacey and wife, Laurie, of Albuquerque, N.M., and David Lacey and wife, Kris Mills, of West Chester, Ohio; two granddaughters, Tamara Lacey of Amarillo and Amanda Dawson of State College, Pa.; two great-granddaughters, Shauna Biss of Albuquerque and Samantha Lacey of West Chester. The family suggests memorials be to the Alzheimer's Association. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. today at the funeral home. Amarillo Globe-News, April 21, 2005 | |||||||||||||||
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| DUMAS - Frances Gentry Dawson, 88, died Saturday, Sept. 22, 2001. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Sixth and Meredith Church of Christ with Darrell Rowell, minister, and Steve Walker, minister of Ninth and Bliss Church of Christ, officiating. Burial will be in Dumas Cemetery by Morrison Funeral Directors. Mrs. Dawson was born Feb. 4, 1913, in Grayson County. She married Robert Lester Dawson Nov. 29, 1934, in Sapulpa, Okla. She had been a Moore County resident since 1949. She was a school teacher from 1949 until her retirement in 1972. She was a member of Sixth and Meredith Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Sara Lacey and husband, Charles of Grand Prairie; a son, Sam Dawson and wife Patsy Snodgrass Dawson of Amarillo; a brother, Bill Gentry of Chouteau, Okla.; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. The family will be at 816 Normandy in Dumas. Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 25, 2001 | |||||||||||||||
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| Mother and Dad both graduated from Mazie High School in 1929. Dad went to the Army at Ft. Warren, Cheyenne, WY, and mother went to Tahlequah for two years to become a teacher. In 1931, she began teaching at Mazie herself. She taught until the 1934-35 school term. Since the school system prohibited women teachers dating or getting married, she and Dad married on the sly, known to their parents and friends. When the school term was over in 1935, they "came out of the closet" and moved to Tulsa, where Dad worked for Phillips Petroleum.55, Note by Sam Dawson. | |||||||||||||||
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