Lawrence J. Ganaway 1931 - 2006

GANAWAY, ROBERT, JACKSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 6/24/2013 at 00:45:07

Sioux City Journal
26 July 2006

Lawrence J. Ganaway, 74, of Sioux City died Sunday, July 23, 2006, at his home after a long illness.

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at Mount Olive Baptist Church, with the Rev. H.C. McGruder officiating. Burial will be in Logan Park Cemetery, with military rites conducted by the U.S. Army. Visitation will be 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Lawrence was born Nov. 10, 1931, in Dyersburg, Tenn., the son of Jeffrey Lee and Clara (Robert) Ganaway. He served with the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict and later served in the Army Reserve.

He married Lessie V. Jackson on Jan. 30, 1954, in Sioux City.

Lawrence had been a Sioux City resident since 1948. He worked at Swift and Co. for many years.

He had been an active member of Mount Olive Baptist Church since 1949. He was ordained a deacon in 1954.

Survivors include his wife, Lessie; three children, Shirley Clifton of Denver, Colo., Vanessa Robinson and her husband, Ronnie, of Long Beach, Calif., and Laverne Ganaway and his wife, Dawn, of Aurora, Colo.; five grandchildren, Jay Clifton, Jishirll Clifton, Preston Ganaway, Jarrell Ganaway and Jakarta Robinson; two sisters, Irene Lee of Detroit, Mich., and Jennie D. Caldwell and her husband, Raymond, of Detroit; and a brother, Marvin Ganaway and his wife, Betty, of Dyersburg, Tenn.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a son, Lawrence Ganaway Jr.