DELLA MOOREHEAD DAWSON HAS DIED - Big Springs Resident Was 100

(12/12/2001)
Della Moorehead Dawson, 100 of Big Springs, died Tuesday, December, 11, 2001. Della was honored with a 100th Birthday Open House on August 11, 2001

"Mom was a devout Republican and always worked the election board. She worked out in the cornfields and rode horses," said daughter Boots, "A really hard worker." She has lived with Boots for the past several years.

Della was the daughter of the late George and Jerusha Adams Moorehead of Big Bend, she was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Her husband Cecil H. Dawson, an oil and gas field worker, died in 1983.

She has four surviving sons, Jack Dawson of Grantsville, Donald Dawson of Cleveland, Larry Dawson of of Grantsville and Lanny Dawson of Millstone. Son Gene Dawson is deceased.

Daughters, Georgia Smith of Cleveland and Delores "Boots" Richards of Big Bend. Daughter Sally Whipkey, known for her involvement with the Grantsville Hotel, is deceased.

Della was also preceded in death by two sisters, Viola Moorehead Deems in 1956, and an infant sister, Sarah. She also had five brothers, George and Thomas Moorehead who died in 1975, in addition to brothers who died around 1901.

Funeral arrangements will be announced on Obits, when available.