Brittany Langley Lawson, 38, a clinical lecturer in the School of Nursing, died Saturday, May 29, 2021.
After graduating from Greenville High School, she attended Clemson University and discovered a passion for nursing. After earning a Bachelor of Science in nursing, she worked for Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital in its Cardiac Intensive Care Unit for 14 years.
Lawson recently begun serving as a clinical nursing instructor at Clemson/Prisma Health.
She is survived by her husband, Dr. Scott Lawson, and their children, Harrison Scott Lawson and Hampton Alexandra Lawson; parents, Dr. Jerry C. Langley and Sandy S. Langley; brother and sister-in-law, Spencer D. Langley and Kristina G. Langley; mother-in-law, Elizabeth Lawson, sister -in-law and brother-in-law, Kelley Sanders and Paul Sanders.
The family will receive friends at 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 3, with a funeral service to follow at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Greenville. The service will also be livestreamed on the church’s website.
The family has plans to create special places in Lawson’s honor where people can sit, gather together and revel in the joy of life, as she so often did. The Brittany Langley Lawson Memorial Fund has been established with the Community Foundation of Greenville to help bring this vision, tentatively called “Brittany’s Benches,” to life.
The full obituary is posted online.
