Donald O. Lawson, 79, of Mayetta, died Friday, August 17, 2018 at the Onaga Health and Rehabilitation Center.
He was born May 23, 1939 at Clay Center, the son of Donald Lawson, Sr. and Thelma Hitsman Lawson.
Don had served in the U.S. Air Force for eleven years and then for eleven years in the Army National Guard. He also was the Heating and Air Supervisor for the State of Kansas in the Docking Building in Topeka.
He was a former member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Mensa International.
Don married Nancy Hill on February 28, 1987 at St. John Catholic Church in Iola. She survives, of the home.
He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Marian Hughes and Thelma.
Other survivors include a son, Douglas Lawson and wife Penny, Salina; a brother, Richard Lawson, in Missouri; two sisters, Beverly Steele, Topeka and Donna Cox, Owasso, OK; and three grandchildren, Brady, Jace and Tatiana Lawson.
Memorial services with military honors will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, August 25th at the Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Holton. Inurnment will be later in the Highland Cemetery at Iola. Memorials are suggested to the American Diabetes Association or the American Heart Association, and may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 1034, Holton, 66436.
He was born May 23, 1939 at Clay Center, the son of Donald Lawson, Sr. and Thelma Hitsman Lawson.
Don had served in the U.S. Air Force for eleven years and then for eleven years in the Army National Guard. He also was the Heating and Air Supervisor for the State of Kansas in the Docking Building in Topeka.
He was a former member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Mensa International.
Don married Nancy Hill on February 28, 1987 at St. John Catholic Church in Iola. She survives, of the home.
He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Marian Hughes and Thelma.
Other survivors include a son, Douglas Lawson and wife Penny, Salina; a brother, Richard Lawson, in Missouri; two sisters, Beverly Steele, Topeka and Donna Cox, Owasso, OK; and three grandchildren, Brady, Jace and Tatiana Lawson.
Memorial services with military honors will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, August 25th at the Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Holton. Inurnment will be later in the Highland Cemetery at Iola. Memorials are suggested to the American Diabetes Association or the American Heart Association, and may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 1034, Holton, 66436.
Donald O. Lawson, 79, of Mayetta, died Friday, August 17, 2018 at the Onaga Health and Rehabilitation Center.
He was born May 23, 1939 at Clay Center, the son of Donald Lawson, Sr. and Thelma Hitsman Lawson.
Don had served in the U.S. Air Force for eleven years and then for eleven years in the Army National Guard. He also was the Heating and Air Supervisor for the State of Kansas in the Docking Building in Topeka.
He was a former member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Mensa International.
Don married Nancy Hill on February 28, 1987 at St. John Catholic Church in Iola. She survives, of the home.
He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Marian Hughes and Thelma.
Other survivors include a son, Douglas Lawson and wife Penny, Salina; a brother, Richard Lawson, in Missouri; two sisters, Beverly Steele, Topeka and Donna Cox, Owasso, OK; and three grandchildren, Brady, Jace and Tatiana Lawson.
Memorial services with military honors will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, August 25th at the Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Holton. Inurnment will be later in the Highland Cemetery at Iola. Memorials are suggested to the American Diabetes Association or the American Heart Association, and may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 1034, Holton, 66436.
He was born May 23, 1939 at Clay Center, the son of Donald Lawson, Sr. and Thelma Hitsman Lawson.
Don had served in the U.S. Air Force for eleven years and then for eleven years in the Army National Guard. He also was the Heating and Air Supervisor for the State of Kansas in the Docking Building in Topeka.
He was a former member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Mensa International.
Don married Nancy Hill on February 28, 1987 at St. John Catholic Church in Iola. She survives, of the home.
He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Marian Hughes and Thelma.
Other survivors include a son, Douglas Lawson and wife Penny, Salina; a brother, Richard Lawson, in Missouri; two sisters, Beverly Steele, Topeka and Donna Cox, Owasso, OK; and three grandchildren, Brady, Jace and Tatiana Lawson.
Memorial services with military honors will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, August 25th at the Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Holton. Inurnment will be later in the Highland Cemetery at Iola. Memorials are suggested to the American Diabetes Association or the American Heart Association, and may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 1034, Holton, 66436.
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