LAWSON, William Joseph - L-Obituaries

Funeral services for William Joseph Lawson, age 23, of Ottawa, Ill., son of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll D. Lawson of Perrysville, who died at 9:19 a. m. Friday, Dec. 7, of injuries suffered in a highway crash Nov. 16, were held Monday afternoon at the Bodine & Shelby Funeral Home here. The young man was one of five persons hurt when the car he was driving collided head-on with a pickup truck seven miles northeast of Ottawa. At the time of the accident, he was returning to his home at Ottawa from work at Norway, Ill. He was a long distance maintenance man with the electronic division of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., at Ottawa. He had been hospitalized at Ottawa following the accident, but was transferred to St. Elizabeth Hospital Thursday. He had suffered a fractured right ankle and left pelvis, cuts and bruises and internal injuries as a result of the accident. The accident victim was born Feb. 3, 1939 at Akron, Ohio, the son of Carroll D. and Mary Weger Lawson. He was graduated from Perrysville High School in 1957, having been a member of the school's track team. A veteran of the U. S. Marine Corps, he had resided in Ottawa for the past year. Survivors, in addition to his parents who reside on Perrysville Rt. 1, are: the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Goldie Lawson of Perrysville; one brother, Andrew of Danville, Ill.; four sisters, Nancy, Rachel, and Jannie, all at home, and Mrs. Frances Link of Valley Station, Ky. The Rev. Grover Williams, assisted by the Rev. Bertha Knox, officiated. Burial was in Lower Mound Cemetery, southwest of Covington. Military rites were conducted at the graveside by the Wallace-Hoyt Post 350, American Legion of Perrysville. Serving as pallbearers were: Bill Moss, Kenny Wilson, Bill Webb, Bob Moudy, David Hance and Glen Muzzy.  --typed by Walt W