Extracted from The Daily Leader (Brookhaven, MS)
Friday, May 12, 2006

Luther Carlos Dawson

Services for Luther Carlos Dawson, of Jayess, are 11 a.m. Saturday, May 13, at Brown Funeral Home in Gloster with burial in New Hope Methodist Protestant Church Cemetery in Amite County. Two of his sons, LaDon and Bobby, along with other leaders of the denomination, will be in charge of the service.

Visitation is today from 5 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Dawson, 85, died May 11, 2006, at Lawrence County Hospital in Monticello. He was born on March 27, 1921, to Luther Cleveland and Allie Bateman Dawson.

He married Eva Quinn Miller in Liberty, on March 27, 1948. They were married in a preacher's home, and later that same day, Carlos performed a wedding ceremony.

He attended Oxford School, Southwest Mississippi Junior College, graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi and later did graduate work at the University of Mississippi and USM. He taught school in several places in Mississippi and Louisiana as a bivocational pastor. He was ordained an elder in the Methodist Protestant Church in 1942 and served in pastorates in several churches in Mississippi and Louisiana. While teaching electronics at Keesler Air Force Base in 1956, he felt the call of God to go as a missionary to British Honduras. In November of that year, he left behind the work at Keesler where he and his wife and children, traveled to British Honduras, which became the country of Belize, where he spent 35 years. He later spent eight years in Seoul, South Korea, as a missionary there, the closest he ever came to China where he had originally felt the call to go as a missionary. He was in the ministry for over 60 years.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his siblings, Annie Bell Crum, Lula Dawson, Elsie Dawson, Tressie McKey, Thomas Dawson, Rhodis Dawson and Willis Dawson; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Survivors are his wife, his sons, LaDon (Darlene) Dawson, of Monticello, Dickie (Gail) Dawson, of Kosciusko, Paul (Debbie) Dawson, of Atlanta, and Bobby (Lisa) Dawson, of Jayess; his daughter, Elsie (Denny) Rutherford, of Columbus; his 15 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Carlos Dawson may be made to Methodist Protestant Missions for the Sand Hill Church construction, in care of Byron Carlisle, 31 Cammack Road, Grove Hill, AL 36451.