Age 81, Lawton - Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Friday in the First United Methodist Church with Rev. Al Potts and Rev. Frankye Johnson, officiating. Mr. Lawson died Monday in Oklahoma City. Burial will be in the Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. He was born April 7, 1927 in Faxon, Oklahoma, to Victor Casey and Elfa Beatrice (Corn) Lawson. He was a 1944 graduate of Lawton High School and served in the U.S. Navy in the Philippines from 1945 until 1946. He married Martha Lou Nauman on May 16, 1945 in Walters. Mr. Lawson owned Cecil Lawson Buick-Cadillac from 1967 until his retirement in 2004. The business later evolved into Lawson Autoplex. He was an auto dealer for Buick, Cadillac, Mitsubishi, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, GMC and KIA. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church where he was active in the United Methodist Men's Club and at the time of his death was chairman of the Board of Trustees and finance chairman. He was a member of the Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce and had been active on the Military Affairs Committee. He was an honorary member of the Fort Sill Sergeant Major's Association. He was a member of the Oklahoma Automobile Dealer Association, a member and past president of the Lawton Automobile Dealers Association, the Oklahoma Horseman's Association and a former board member and past chairman of the Boys Club of the Salvation Army. He was a Cannon Cocker and a member of the Oklahoma and Texas Thoroughbred Associations. He is survived by his wife, of the home; a daughter, Susan Gayl Lawson, Lawton; three grandchildren, Jeffrey Scott Lawson and his fiancé Jennifer Holloway, Amy Michele Dalrymple and husband Gary, and Whitney Lauren Lawson; five great grandchildren, Devin Michael Jones, Daryn Thomas Jones, Ryan Perry Lawson, Alyssa Marie Matheson and Kaden Ray Lawson; a sister and brother in law, Dorothy and Kenneth Youngblood, Lawton; and a brother, Gerald Lawson, Huntington Beach, California; a daughter in law, Bonnie Burton, Lawton. His parents, a daughter, Cheryl Lynn Lawson, a son, Thomas Brent Lawson, two sisters, Beatrice Martin and Helen Strom, and a brother, Jack W. Lawson, preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to the Children's Starlight Fund at Comanche County Memorial Hospital, 3401 W. Gore Blvd., Lawton OK 73505 or to Hospice of Southwest Oklahoma, P.O. Box 2074, Lawton OK 73502.