Lawton, Robert W. 1891-1985

LAWTON, HAYLER, ROUSH, BATES, PHILBY, TREICHELL, COLLISTER

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Date: 10/6/2007 at 18:06:52

Robert W. Lawton

Funeral services for Robert W. Lawton, 94, of 313 S. 15th Ave. W., a resident of Newton for more than 60 years, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. Stan Wierson, associate pastor of the First United Methodist Church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Newton Union Cemetery.

Masonic services will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, May 17. Master Masons are requested to meet at the temple at 6:30 p.m.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. today, May 16.

Visitation with the family will be held following Masonic services Friday.

Mr. Lawton died Tuesday evening, May 14, at Skiff memorial Hospital.

Survivors are his wife, Pauline; two sons, John of Princeton, Ill., and Harold of Bryan, Tex.; two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Priscilla) Hayler of Fairborn, Ohio, and Mrs. Dorothy Roush of Marshalltown; 18 grandchildren; and 31 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents, first wife, Fannie Bates, in 1939, and a daughter, Frieda, in 1970.

Mr. Lawton was a member of the First United Methodist Church, the Newton Masonic Lodge 59 AF and AM and preciously was active in the Boy Scouts.

A Maytag Co. Plant I assembly line employee, Mr. Lawton retired in 1957.

The son of Robert F. and Mary Philby Lawton, he was born Jan. 16, 1891 in Brazil, Iowa.

He was married to Pauline Treichell Collister, Nov. 26, 1955 at the First United Methodist Church in Newton. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, May 1985