Marshall Co. - Obit for Elmer Dean Dawson

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Dean Dawson Is Taken By Death Christmas Day

Elmer Dean Dawson, former resident of Kingston, died in Fort Worth, Texas, 
Christmas Day. Funeral services were held in the Nazarene Church in Kingston
Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. B. J. Wilkins conducted the services and was assisted by the Rev. 
W. F. Gipson. Burris Evans was in charge of the music.
Mr. Dawson was born in Grayson County, Texas, January 1, 1893. He lived at 
Kingston before the first world war. His health was injured by gas and shell
shock when he was in the service during that war.
He moved to Oklahoma City after World War I and moved to Fort Worth, eight 
years ago. Mrs. Dawson died in March 1944.
He is survived by four children, Eugene Dawson, Fort Worth; Ray Lee Dawson, 
who is in the U. S. marines; Mrs. Bernice McClelland, Waurika and Miss Patsy D.
Dawson, of Fort Worth; one Grandchild; his father, E. E. Dawson, and two brothers,
R. M. Dawson, and S. P. Dawson, all of Bethany, Okla.
Pallbearers were, Walton Landram, Gene Flynt, Rat Buck, Cleve Lasiter, Tom Steele, 
Frank Landram, Homer Wilkens and Monroe Barwick.
Burial was at Kingston, with Watts Funeral Home of Madill in charge of all 
arrangements.

Information from Madill Library Genealogy Dept. newspaper clippings in Marshall
County, OK