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Simon Dawson was born the ninth child and fifth son of Lillie B. Keys Dawson and Lovelace Dawson, on Friday, April 12, 1946. Simon completed grade school and middle school at Hopewell School and graduated from Carver High School in Collins, Mississippi. Simon loved God and accepted Christ as his personal savior at an early […]

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