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An annual suicide awareness and prevention walk is planned Saturday in honor of 16-year-old Whitley County High School student Bethany Faith Lawson, who took her own life in 2018. “Help us let everyone, who may be struggling, know that they do not need to be silent. We are...

In August 2018, 16-year-old Bethany Faith Lawson was a sophomore at Whitley County High School, who loved horses, liked to model, was artistic and passionate about rescuing animals. Then over the course of a 24-hour time period, she became one of three people, and one of two...

Despite the rainy and overall gloomy weather on Oct. 24, approximately 70 people turned out at Patrick’s Point River Campsite in Williamsburg to remember a Whitley County teen who took her own life in 2018. The Bethany’s Hope Memorial Suicide Prevention Horse Ride was held in...

Over 50 people turned out Saturday in Williamsburg for a suicide and bullying prevention one-mile walk in memory of Bethany Faith Lawson, a student at Whitley County High School, who killed herself last year. Savanna McKiney with Cumberland River Behavioral Health Community...

Melissa Lawson knows a little something about suicide. Less than two months ago, her 16-year-old daughter, Bethany Faith Lawson, killed herself. “I just want everybody out there to know it is OK to not be OK. It is OK to ask for help,” Melissa Lawson told a crowd of about 150...

Bethany Faith Lawson, 16, of Limestone Branch, Williamsburg, departed this life on Saturday, August 11, 2018 at her home. She was born on May 04, 2002 in Lexington, to Anthony Lawson and Melissa (Johnson) Lawson. She was preceded in death by great grandparents, Warren and Odene...

Funeral arrangements have been set for Wednesday afternoon for a Whitley County High School student, who died Saturday. Bethany Faith Lawson, 16, of Limestone Branch, Williamsburg, died at her home. She was to be a sophomore at Whitley County High School this fall. Lawson was...