Mr. Henry Thomas Lawson

LAWSON, Mr. Henry Thomas – Age 90, passed away Monday, November 4, 2013 at Kith Haven Nursing Home. Family hour 1:30p.m. Saturday, November 9, 2013 at House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church, 1851 W. Carpenter Rd., with funeral service commencing at 2p.m. Pastor Kenneth L. Stewart, officiating. Interment Flint Memorial Park Cemetery, G-9506 Dort Hwy. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the church 1:30p.m. Saturday. Mr. Lawson will lie in state in the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 906 W. Flint Park Blvd., and may be viewed from 12noon-8p.m. Friday, with the family present from 6p.m.-8p.m. Mr. Henry Thomas Lawson “PAP” was born March 15, 1923 in Utica, MS, the son of the late Henry Lawson and Willie Bell Epps. Henry confessed Christ in August 2008. He served in the U.S. Army in 1948, where he was Honorably Discharged. He married Mary Taylor in 1942 and to this union two children were born, Angela and Tammy Lawson. Mary Lawson died April 13, 1997. Henry later married Shirley Lea July 31, 2009, they had one son, Darryl Lea. Henry was very big on family and would do anything for them. He loved to watch the Detroit Tigers play baseball and watch the news on CNN. Mr. Henry Thomas Lawson leaves to cherish his memory: wife, Shirley Lawson of Flint; 2 daughters, Angela Lawson and Tammy Lawson both of Columbus, Ohio; son, Darryl Lea of Little Rock, AK; grandchildren, Tomeko, Emanuel, Jhamonique, Tatiana, Shaquance, Isaiah, Havanna, Domonique, Colandria, Darryl Jr., Kelton, Neiga, Tomeka, Emmanuel, Reneisha, Jermany; brother, Thomas Paige of Utica, MS; nephew, Edward (Rose) Lawson; a host of other relatives and friends. Mr. Lawson was preceded in death by his seven sisters, Helen Louise Curtis, Bertha Lee-Lawson, Louise Morris, Lucille Bradley, Delois Lawson, Addie May Currie and Inez Kinnard; five brothers, Clarence Lawson, Willie T. Lawson, Albert Lawson, Henry Lawson, Jr. and Percy Lawson. Mrs. Lawson would like to express a special thanks to Dr. Pascual Perez, the staffs of Gentiva Hospice and Kith Haven Nursing Home; especially all of the Nurses Assistants for their awesome care of Henry while we were there. Love to all of you. To all of our friends and church family, thank you. May God continue to bless you all.

Mr. Henry Thomas Lawson

March 13, 1923 - November 4, 2013