Myra Helen Graves Dawsey
88, Hammond, La.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. pm Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Woodlawn Cemetery for Myra Helen Graves Dawsey, 88, of Hammond, La., who died peacefully on Monday, June 24, in Hammond, La., surrounded by family. 
She was born on Sunday, May 3, 1936, in Bogalusa, La., to Murry Marcus and Patty B. Wilks Graves.
She loved cooking, sewing, playing piano, poetry, classical music, history, traveling, visiting the sick and staying in touch with her extended family and lifelong friends. She was a 1954 graduate of Columbia High School. She also graduated from Draughon’s Business College in Jackson and took piano classes at William Carey College in Hattiesburg.
She worked as a sales representative, purchasing agent, bookkeeper, seamstress, driver and worked in management. She was a member of Westside Baptist Church in Ponchatoula, La.
Survivors include her children, Laura Dawsey Bernos (Donald), Steven Douglas Dawsey, Michael Alan Dawsey (Leah) and Sharon Ilene Dawsey; grandchildren, David Bernos, Brian Bernos, Brandon Bernos, Michelle Sims, Rebekah Dawsey, Ileene Lanier and Amy Dawsey; and great-grandchildren, Brianna Bernos, Hope Bernos, Abbey Bernos, Henry Bernos, Thomas Bernos, Cecelia Bernos, Cassie Hayno, Adalin Populis, Bear Barbato, Audrey Sims, Daniel Lanier, Helen Lanier and Samuel Lanier.
Myra will be remembered for her thoughtfulness, generosity and fiery inner strength.
Share your thoughts and memories of Myra in her guestbook by visiting Lnhughes.com. Arrangements have been entrusted to LN Hughes Funeral Services.
