Services for Charles Everett Dawson, 89, Franklin Manor Nursing Home, were conducted Wednesday, September 6, 1989, at Harrod Brothers Memorial Chapel in Frankfort. Burial was in Sunset Memorial Gardens. He died Tuesday, September 5, at the nursing home following a long illness. A native of Anderson County, he was a retired farmer and a member of the Memorial Baptist Church. Survivors include seven stepdaughters, Helen Wingate, Sarah Tincher, Kathleen Conway, Lula Stigers, and Jean Ruth, all of Frankfort, Hazel Lewis, Versailles, and Peggy Cobb, Lexington; a brother, Noble Dawson, Louisville; two sisters, Artie Mary Brown, Louisville, and Lucille Clark, Shelbyville. He was the son of the late John H. Dawson and Maggie F. Watson Dawson and the widower of Della Stigers Dawson.

The Woodford Sun, Versailles, Kentucky, September 14, 1989