Joseph Centel Lawson

Joseph Centel Lawson, 18, of Wingate, NC, formerly of Albany, GA, died Saturday, May 26, 2012, at Coffee Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Mary Hampton will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.

A native of Albany, GA, Mr. Lawson had resided in Wingate, NC for the past eighteen months moving from Albany, GA. He was a welder with Southern Fabricators and was of the Baptist faith.

Survivors include his parents, David and Rebecca Haynes, Wingate, NC, three brothers, William Louis Haynes, Hazlehurst, GA, Joseph Emanuel Haynes, Douglas, GA, Brandon Porter, Wingate, NC, three sisters, Danielle Hughes and Brooke Mills both of Marshville, NC, Brandi Nicole Porter, Wingate, NC, maternal grandparents, Jerry and Sandra Scott, Albany, GA, paternal grandmother, Joan Hampton and paternal great-grandmother, Rev. Mary Hampton both of Baxley, GA, maternal great-grandmother, Willie Ruth Hickman of Jackson, GA, a niece, Karlee Hughes and nephew, Trevor Hughes both of Marshville, NC.

The family is at the residence of Joey and Sherrie Rogers, 6112 Willow Rd., Albany, GA.

The family will receive friends Thursday from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home.