Person:Robert Lawson (12)

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Robert Hugh LAWSON
b.14 Jan 1925 Moline, Rock Island County, IL
d.19 Jun 1984 Rock Island, RI County, IL
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m. 17 Nov 1923
  1. Robert Hugh LAWSON1925 - 1984
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m. 5 Jun 1949
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Name Robert Hugh LAWSON
Gender Male
Birth[1] 14 Jan 1925 Moline, Rock Island County, IL
Marriage 5 Jun 1949 Rock Island, RI County, ILto Joan Rae KELL
Death[2] 19 Jun 1984 Rock Island, RI County, IL
Burial[2] 22 Jun 1984 Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal, RI County, IL.

Died of cancer. SS#347-18-6875. DOB and POB from Maude Lawson [BU-IL 13]; confirmed by BC [BU-IL 55]- but mother’s name is mispelled as Maud.

Obituary of Robert Lawson; Rock Island Argus, Wednesday June 30, 1984. [BU-IL 10]. “Robert Lawson Robert H. Lawson, 59, of 4520 24th Ave., Rock Island, died yesterday at Franciscan Medican Center, Rock island. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Wheelan Funeral Home, Rock Island. Dr. William D. Mullen, minister of visitation at South Park Presbyterian Church, Rock Island, will officiate, and burial will be in National Cemetery, Rock Island Arsenal. Visitation is 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or to the above church. Pallbearers will be William Ingold, Jay Schaaf, Frank Youngquist, Ted Freland, Robert Eagle and John Lewarne. Mr. Lawson was born Jan. 14, 1925, in Moline, the son of Hugh J. and Maude A. Burch Lawson. He was a graduate of Augustana College. He married Joan Kell June 5, 1949, in Rock Island. She died in 1975. He had been employed by J.I. Case and later by Bituminous Casualty Co., and was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1960, after which he went into a private law practice. Mr. Lawson was a member of the above church, Rock Island Lodge 980, BPOE, the Rock Island Optimist Club, and the Illinois and Rock Island County Bar Association. He was also a supervisor of South Rock Island Township and a Republican precinct committeeman. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Linda Christine Champion of Philadelphia, Pa., and Mrs. Cassandra Jo Geddes of Deerefield. Ill; two granddaughters; and his mother in Rock Island.”

In 1969 lived at 4520 24th Ave, RI.

DC [BU-IL 51; State file # 89140] gives cause of death as carcinoma of the left lung with metastasis to lungs and bones; died in Franciscan Medical Center, RI; names of parents; occupation was attorney; served during WW II and Korea; informant was Elaine Ingold, who lived at 4520-24th Ave, RI.

References
  1. ↑ Birth certificate: State file number 3810023; birth number 2500044850..
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 State File number 89140; registered number 8574..
  3.   Obituary in The Argus, Rock Island, IL., Wednesday June 30, 1984.
    [BU-IL 10].
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