Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dawson, Lorna Bernice January 27, 2025
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Hasting's Reminder - Sat. January 31, 2025

          Lorna Bernice Dawson

SUNFIELD- Lorna Bernice Dawson, 87, of Sunfield, Michigan, passed away January 
27, 2006, at Pennock Hospital in Hastings, following a lengthy illness.

Ms Dawson was born February 20, 1918, in Climax, the only child of Rev. Myron 
H.Dawson and Maida (Allen) Dawson.

Lorna attended Sunfield and Woodland grade schools, Lansing's Pattengill Junior 
High and Eastern High School and attended Huntington College (affiliated with 
United Brethren church)in Huntington,Indiana, where she served on the Huntington 
College women's swim team. During the 1940's she owned and operated travel 
trailer dealerships with her first husband, Kenneth F.Dunham, in Phoenix, 
Arizona; Fort Worth,Texas; Bismark, North Dakota; and Ironwood,Michigan.

She then returned to Sunfield in the 1950' to help manage and operate the 
Allen/Dawson family farms.She later became a Real Estate Broker and member of 
the Lansing Board of Realtors during the 1960's and 1970's. She then retired in 
1981 to the family farm in Sunfield, where she lived until June of 2005.

Lorna enjoyed playing the piano for church, traveling, fishing, boating, nature, 
and her beloved cats.

She was a member of the Siewrra Club and the Kilpatrick Church Missionary 
Society. Ms.Dawson is preceded in death by her parents, Rev Myron & Maida 
Dawson; her husbands Kenneth Dunham and Rex Frink; and Great-Grandson Giosue 
Picinich.

She is survived by her only daughter, Berenice j.Dunham of Hastings; 
granddaughter Dana (Mario) Picinich of Solon Springs, Wisconsin; grandson Dean 
McVay of Upland, California; great grandchildren Mario, Domenic and Ericka 
Picinich, of Solon Sprins, Wisconsin; step-granddaughters Teresa (Howard)Crapser 
of Wyoming; Jane (Kenneth) Veldkamp of Lake Odessa; Joberta Converse of 
Hastings, their children and grandchildren; an Uncle,Lester Dawson of 
Clarksville; and a cousin, Arthur(Mary)Allen of Potterville.

Funeral services will be Tuesday,January 31, 2:00 p.m. at the Rosier Funeral 
Home, Mapes-Fisher Chapel.

For those wishing, memorial contributions may be made to Kilpatrick United 
Brethren Church, Woodland,Michigan.

The family is being served by the Independent Family Owned Funeral Home in 
Sunfield; Rosier Funeraal Hoome. For more information www.Legacy.com



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