Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Ruby Lawson

Feb. 7, 1913 - Nov. 1, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 11/1/1994

MISHAWAKA - Ruby Lawson, 81, of Meridian Nursing Center-Cardinal, South Bend, formerly of 1719 E. Third St., died at 6:50 a.m. today in the nursing home. Mrs. Lawson was born Feb. 7, 1913, in New Lebanon, Ind., and lived in Mishawaka most of her life.

 

On Jan. 19, 1935, in Mishawaka, as Ruby Walker, she married Howard Lawson. He died Dec. 27, 1984. She is survived by a daughter, Betty Barhydt of Mishawaka; a stepdaughter, M.J. Plummer of Rochester; five grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Ellma Austin and Viola Johnson, both of Elkhart, and Edna Rusk of Albuquerque, N.M.; and a brother, King Walker of Frost, Texas.

 

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Hollis-Orvis-Palmer Funeral Home, South Bend. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home.