LAWSON Wabash, Feb. 1 – Jackie Lee Lawson, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lawson, died early this morning following a three year illness resulting from an attack of spinal meningitis. The child had been a patient at the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital in Indianapolis several times during his long illness. He is survived by his parents. Mr. Lawson is the sports editor of the Wabash Plain Dealer. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Church of the Brethren with Rev. J. R. Smeltzer of North Manchester in charge of the services. Burial will be in the Ogan Cemetery. Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, February 2, 1940.