Clara Sharon Lawson, daughter of the late Ardis Eakin and Gussie Freeman Eakin, was born on December 14, 1946, in Bell City, Missouri, and departed this life on February 16, 2023, at her residence in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 76 years.

Mrs. Lawson was a homemaker. She enjoyed sewing, crocheting, and making candles. She loved her cats and dogs.

On July 18, 1987, in Dexter, Missouri, she was united in marriage to Rick Lawson. Mr. Lawson survives of their home in Dexter.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sons, Jeff Davis and wife Alana of Dexter, Missouri and Rick Lawson Jr. of New Hamburg, Missouri; by two daughters, Ginger Pixley of Dexter Missouri, and Yvette Karg and husband Kevin of Sterling, Colorado; by her brother, Mike Eakin of Bell City, Missouri; by three sister, Viva Pope of Oran, Missouri, Pat Eakin of Bell City, Missouri, and Donna Stephens of Bell City, Missouri; by fourteen grandchildren, Baylie Grubbs, LeAnna Parks, Brianna Wright, Bryson McRoy, Cory Diebold, Colby Diebold, Dakota Lawson, Mark Lawson, Jordan Karg, Karah Quint, Delaney Karg, Khloe Karg, Keenan Pixley, and Autumn Pixley; and by seven great-grandchildren, Daisee Grubbs, Annalise Bennett, Elijah Parks, Ava Wright, Carter Jackson, Gray Robinson, and Ryla Robinson.

Other than by her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, David Eakin and Gaylon Eakin; by her son-in-law, Dale Ray Pixley; by her grandson, Josh Lawson, and by her great-granddaughter, Millie Grubbs.

Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, February 20, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.

Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel on Monday, February 20, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. with Rev. Quintin Davis officiating. Interment will follow in the Gravel Hill Cemetery in rural Bloomfield.

Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter is assisting with arrangements.