This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hawkins Davis Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/836 Message Board Post: Lester "Hawk" Hawkins Longtime resident Lester "Hawk" Hawkins, 86, Davis died July 12, 2003, at Burford Manor Nursing Home. Funeral services were July 15 at First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Finis Steelman officiating. Burial was in Green Hill Cemetery. He was born May 14, 1917, in Hickory to J.W. and Nora (Davis) Hawkins. He graduated from Davis High School. His wife was Thelma Inez Warren. He worked for the Santa Fe Railroad and retired after 32 years of service. He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Thelma Lee Craig, and brother, Sylvester Hawkins. Survivors include: his wife; a daughter, Dixie Diane Tomlinson, Davis; two sons, Warren Lee, Davis and Lester D. of Stratford; two sisters, Margaret Thomas, Davis and Johnnie Mae Beller, Stratford; eight grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were her grandsons, Eddie Ray Tomlinson, Brandon Tomlinson, Lester D. Hawkins Jr., Trevor Elliott and Taylor Moore. Honorary pallbearers were Ray Chambless, Dave Winters and Frank Prater. Services were under the direction of Krien Funeral Home.