Funeral for Retired Sergeant James Dawson, 70, of Town Creek will be Thursday, November 7, 2019, at Parkway Funeral Home, at 11:00 AM with Rev. Scotty Letson and Retired Sergeant Major Al Isbell officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery. Visitation will be two hours before the service at the funeral home. Sgt. Dawson, who died Sunday, November 3, 2019, at Floyd E. “Tut” Fann Veterans Home , was born, February 7, 1949, to James Robert Dawson, Sr. and Annis P. Jeffreys Dawson. He was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, retired after 26 years as a Green Beret, Member of Hatton Masonic Lodge #879 F. & A. M. and retired from BP Amoco. He loved the outdoors, woods,, mountains and streams.. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother – Frank Dawson
Survivors include:
Wife – Diane Dawson
Son – Chad Dawson
Daughter – Shea (Dwight) Pilgrim
2 brothers – Willard Dawson, Lester Dawson
6 sisters – Doris Berry, Delores Terry, Janise Graves, Jeanette Knighten, Judy Mardis, Sylvia Crow
5 grandchildren – Lauren Sims, Bailey Dawson, Abby Pilgrim, Will Pilgrim, Katie Dawson
Pallbearers will be Al Isbell, Patrick Conner, Cliff Mansell, Paul Wilmoth, Gerald Steely, Charles March.
Honorary pallbearers 20the Special Forces Group.
