Lawson, Alise M. (Walker) 1914-1989

LAWSON, HITCHLER, WALKER, HECK, SCHNATHORST, EATON, ANDERSON, MOORE, BARKLEY

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 6/28/2005 at 09:52:46

Obituary: Alise M. Lawson

Alise Walker Lawson, 75, of 314 W. 5th St. S., a longtime resident of Newton, died of a heart attack Thursday evening, Feb. 9, at the Skiff Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. Joseph L. Babcock, pastor of the Foursquare Church, will conduct services. Burial will be in the Newton Union Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m. Sunday. Visitation with the family will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be left at the funeral home.

Survivors are her husband, Mack; a son, Darrell Maxwell of San Antonio, Tex.; a daughter, Vivian (Mrs. Lyle) Heck of Newton; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are her mother, Della Pearl Walker of Newton; a brother, Ivan Walker of Newton; and five sisters, Odetha (Mrs. Glen) Schnathorst of Indianola, LaVera Eaton, Yvonna (Mrs. Roy) Anderson and Della (Mrs. William) Moore, all of Newton; and Roberta (Mrs. James) Barkley of Wichita, Kan.

She was preceded in death by her father.

Mrs. Lawson, former owner-operator of the Maxwell Café and Grocery in Newton, had owned and operated the Beefburger Café in Lufkin, Tex.

Mrs. Lawson, a charter member of the Newton Foursquare Church, also had worked at Newton Manufacturing Co.

The daughter of John William and Della Pearl Hitchler Walker, she was born, Jan. 20, 1914 in Jasper County.

She was married to Mack Henry Lawson Dec. 28, 1986 in Newton.

Mrs. Lawson also had resided in Texas and California. ~ The Newton Daily News, February 10, 1989.