Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dawson, Ruth Louise April 5, 2013 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Woolfitt http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008401 April 8, 2022, 3:45 pm Virginian-Pilot April 9, 2018 Norfolk - Ruth Louise Dawson (nee Jones), 90, of Port Charlotte, Florida, passed away Friday April 5, 2013. She was born on January 23, 1923, in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of Clarence & Bertie (nee Thompson) Jones. She was the wife of William Graham Dawson. Mrs. Dawson graduated from Maury High School. She studied Art at Old Dominion University. She also studied painting with Bertha Fanning Taylor at the Norfolk Museum of Arts & Sciences (now Chrysler Museum). She became an accomplished painter and was an exhibitor at the Virginia Beach Boardwalk Art Show. She was a realtor for many years with the firm Henry-Hanson-Tucker in Norfolk. She & her husband retired to Florida in 1980. A highlight event in her life was a trip to the Holy Land with Bible study leader, Eleanor Page. Mrs. Dawson is survived by a son, William Graham Dawson, Jr., one sister, Marian Noe, of Richmond, and three brothers, Joseph Jones and Robert Jones, both of Florida and Charles Jones, of Suffolk. A graveside burial service will be held at St. Mary's Cemetery in Norfolk on Friday, April 12, 2013 at 2pm. Arrangements are made by Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, 8464 Tidewater Drive, Norfolk, VA 23508. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/d/dawson2333nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb