Phillips County Progress, Helena-West Helena, Arkansas Phillips County, Arkansas *********************************************************** Submitted by: Barbara Miller Stainback Date: 15 Jan 2006 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** OBITUARIES JUNE 20 & 21, 1998 Page 3 MRS. HESTER DAWSON Funeral service for Mrs. Hester Josephine Dawson of Bernie, Missouri was conducted Monday afternoon at Rainey Funeral Home Chapel in Bernie. The Rev. Doyle Corlew of Essex, Missouri and the Rev. John Davis of Bernie officiated. Burial was in Bernie Cemetery. Mrs. Dawson, 78, died June 12, 1998, at her home in Bernie. She was a homemaker, a lifelong resident of Bernie, a member of Vinson General Baptist Church, and attended the Bernie Baptist Church. She was the stepmother of Helena's Mayor Joann Smith. Other survivors include five sons, James Russell Dawson Jr, of Winter Haven, Florida, Phil Dawson and Tom Dawson, both of Bernie, Dr. John Dawson of Columbiana, Ohio, and Bruce Dawson of Dexter; a brother, Chester Horton of Bernie; a sister, Mrs. Ruth Craft of Bernie; 16 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. The family requests any memorials be made to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 7730 Carondelet, Suite 135, St. Louis, MO. 63105