Mary Lou Lawson

Funeral services for Mary Lawson, 78, West Plains, Missouri, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at the Langston Street Chapel of Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.

Mrs. Lawson passed away at home on December 4, 2025 in West Plains, Missouri.  

She was born June 18, 1947, at West Plains, Missouri, to Joseph Eugene Thomas and Hazel Rosella Street. On August 22, 2003 she married Gary Wayne Lawson, who preceded her in death.

Mary attended Union Grove Church, where she belonged to a quilting group. She loved being outdoors, and spending time with family and friends. Throughout her life she worked at West Vue and the International Shoe Factory before retiring from Riverway Home Health.

She is survived by one daughter, Cindy Sinclair and husband, Martin of West Plains, Missouri; four grandchildren, Tara McFarland and husband, Ian of Maumelle, Arkansas, Cody Collins and wife, Cheyenne of West Plains, Raven Collins and wife, Kayla of West Plains, and Cora Epley and husband, Cody of Pottersville, Missouri; fourteen great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild; one brother, Larry Thomas of West Plains; one sister, Rose Gunter of Springfield, Missouri; one sister-in-law, Rosa Thomas of West Plains, and many nieces and nephews.

Her parents, husband, one son, James Newton, two great-grandchildren, Kaiden Collins, and James Collins, one brother, Aaron Thomas, two sisters, Alice Looper and husband, Manual, and Donna Sue Thomas, one brother-in-law, Brentwood Gunter, and one sister-in-law, Dana Thomas preceded her in death.

Memorial contributions may be made to Union Grove Cemetery, and may be left at or mailed to Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, 211 W. Main St., West Plains, Missouri.