Elisabeth Lawton

Graveside service for Ms. Elisabeth “Bebe” Lawton will be Monday, January 5, 2009 at 10:00 am at Memory Lawn Cemetery in Natchitoches, La. The family will receive friends from 9am until 9:45 am, Monday, January 5, 2009 at Blanchard St Denis Funeral Home. Ms. Lawton, 79, passed away January 2, 2009. She was born July 22, 1929 to the late Alphonse Lawton and Sudie Merritt Lawton. She served and retired as the Assistant to the President of Northwestern State University. She will be deeply missed by her family and friends. Those left to cherish her memory include her nieces, Julie Hughes Callihan and her husband W.H. and Marti Hughes Bailey and her husband David; Great nieces and nephews, William Edmond and wife Courtney Callihan, Lawton Cole Callihan, Briana Bailey Megee and her husband Chris; Great-Great nieces, Martha Patrice Megee and Lauren Elisabeth Megee. She was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Patrice Lawton; a sister, Martha Hughes; and a niece Jill Hughes. Memorials in Ms. Lawton’s name may be made to St Jude’s Children’s Hospital and the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home.