Funeral services for Barney Rawson, a longtime Las Cruces businessman and community leader, will be held Saturday.
The funeral will be held at First Presbyterian Church in Las Cruces – which the Rawsons have attended since they arrived in the city in 1959 – starting at 10 a.m., the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting.
Rawson was the father of state Sen. Leonard Lee Rawson and a longtime community leader. He was killed June 24 in a car accident in Illinois that also left his wife Joan severely injured. The funeral was delayed until she was released from the hospital in Illinois and could travel back to New Mexico to attend.
She’ll be there in a wheelchair, the Sun-News reported.