ALVARADO -- Barbara J. Dawson, 70, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Service: 2 p.m. Friday in Blessing Colonial Chapel in Mansfield. Interment: Mansfield Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Barbara was born Dec. 2, 1939, in Royse City to Arthur Leslie and Anna Addiline Hanes Warren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Doyle Dawson. Survivors: Children, Donna Dawson Tilden, Michael Gene Dawson and Stephen Arthur Dawson; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.