Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dawson, William Graham March 6, 1997
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Virginian-Pilot  March 7, 1997
William Graham Dawson passed away March 6, 1997.

He is survived by his wife, the former Ruth Louise Jones and his son, William 
Dawson Jr. of Miami.

Mr. Dawson was born Jan. 19, 1919 in Norfolk. As a child, he attended Epworth 
Methodist Church and graduated from Maury High School in Norfolk. He was married 
in Norfolk in 1943 to Miss Jones, a Norfolk native and a graduate of Maury High 
School, and between 1944 and 1946 served in the U.S. Army as an MP and staff 
sergeant in Nuremberg, Germany. While serving in Europe, he published a newspaper 
for enlisted men. After World War II, he returned to Norfolk where he worked as a 
shipfitter at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and as a metalsmith at the Norfolk Naval 
Air Station for a total of 36 years. After his retirement from the government in 
1976, he and his wife moved to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and later to Port Charlotte 
where he was employed for nine years at St. Joseph's Hospital. His son and only 
offspring, William Jr., who is also a graduate of Maury High, is a professor and 
presently head of the music department at Miami Dade Community College.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in St. Mary's Cemetery, 
Norfolk. Kays-Ponger Funeral Home, Port Charlotte, and Hollomon-Brown Funeral 
Home, Tidewater Drive Chapel, are handling arrangements.

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