Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Saturday, May 30, 1981

DAWSON, RUBY W.

Died Friday, May 29, 1981, at Lane Memorial Hospital, Zachary. She was 87 and a former resident of Zachary.

Visiting at Brown Funeral Home, Gloster, Miss., from 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Religious services at the funeral home at 2 p.m. Sunday. Burial in New Hope Cemetery.

Survived by five sons, Mann, Roger, Eugene and Wilmer Dawson, all of Gloster, and William Dawson, Hattiesburg, Miss.; five daughters, Mrs. Carl Boykin, Ferriday, Mrs. R. H. Whittington, Baton Rouge, Mrs. Elwood Boykin, Zachary, Mrs. C. L. Thornton, Baker, and A. J. Havard, Baton Rouge; a sister, Earline Whittington, New Orleans; a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great great-grandchildren.

Preceded in death by her husband, L. H. Dawson.

She was a member of New Hope Methodist Protestant Church.