Daniel Bruce Lawson, a 60-year-old resident of Princeton, died on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 at his home.
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Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, at the Princeton First Baptist Church, with Dr. David Robertson officiating. Burial will be in the Princeton Cemetery.
Open visitation begins at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 at the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel in Princeton, where the family visitation will be from 7 to 8 on Tuesday evening.
Mr. Lawson was born on Nov. 9, 1949 in Princeton, the son of Gilbert Harold and Marilyn Donanell Hampshire Lawson. He moved with his family to Des Moines, IA, when he was four years of age and was a 1967 graduate of North High School in Des Moines. In March of 1968, he joined the U.S. Navy and served as a medical corpsman during the Vietnam War.
Mr. Lawson was married on July 1, 1972 to Diana Lee “Chrickett” Roberts, who survives of the home.
After his discharge from the Navy, he and his wife lived and worked in Des Moines and other areas in Missouri. His last employment was with the A.T.K. Lake City Ammunitions Plant in Independence, manufacturing ammunitions for the military. The couple returned to Princeton in 1998.
He was a ham radio operator, played stringed musical instruments, collected wooden soldier nutcrackers and enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, assembling wooden model airplanes, and attending auctions.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his three sons, Scotty Allen Lawson and his wife, Lisa, and Gilbert Eugene Lawson and his wife, Linda, all of Princeton, and Donnie Dean Lawson of Lexington; his mother, Donanell Shafer of Waukee, IA; two brothers, Albert Lawson and his wife, Katheryn, of Des Moines and Randall Lawson of Grimes, IA; two sisters, Donna Lynn Hesseltine and her husband, Ron, of Alamo, TX and Janie Breese and her husband, Art of Des Moines; nine grandchildren; four sisters-in-law, Linda McGuire and her husband, Eugene, of Higginsville, Roberta Hummel of Marshall, WI, Connie Hyden-Fidler and her husband, Everett, of Higginsville and Debbie Werneke and her husband, Jerry, of Concordia; and by many nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father.