HELEN JOAN LAWSON

1932-2020

Joan Lawson passed away on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas after a week and a half battle with COVID-19.

Joan was born in Houston, Texas on February 13th, 1932 to Mr. and Mrs. Frank J.

Herb. She attended Edgar Allan Poe Elementary, Mirabeau B. Lamar High School and also Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. She married Harold “Hal” Lawson and they lived in Houston for many years. In later years Joan married Karl Edmund Nehr and they lived in Rancho Mirage, California. They later retired to a small plot of land in rural Greenville, Texas they named Yellow Rose Farm.

Joan is preceded in death by her parents and by her husband, Edmund Nehr. She is survived by her daughter Cindy Lawson Thorp, sonin-law James Edward “Jim” Thorp, granddaughters Lucy Thorp Suell (Doug) and Carolyn Thorp Osborne (Will) and great-grandchildren Emma James Thorp, Henry Thorp and Lila Brown Osborne. Joan’s family is most grateful for her devoted and loving caregivers Maria Torres, Tisha Marie Ellis, Gena Warden and Patricia Hernandez. Because of their care, Joan was able to spend her last years at home in her comfortable chair watching TV with her dog, Coco at her side.

She also spent time getting reacquainted with her family. Interment will be held at Hart Cemetery in Greenville, Texas. For those wishing to make a donation in Joan’s memory, they may do so to: Operation Triage on their website or at 158 Louisiana Avenue, New Braunfels, Texas 78130-8104.