Dan Lawler, the creator and artist of hundreds of Humpty Dumpty magazine covers, Readers Digest cartoons, and other illustrations and portraits, passed away Thursday, December 27th at age 100.  His son Tom Lawler and daughter-in-law Karen Lawler are long-time residents of Richboro. 

Dan was a scholarship graduate of the Minneapolis School of Art.  He won a fellowship to study in New York City with a master portraitist.  His studies were interrupted by World War II where he was deployed with the Army to the European Theater.  He landed on Utah Beach on D-Day and fought in the Normandy campaign as a recon platoon sergeant.  While on a scouting mission, months after D-Day, his whole patrol was ambushed, and Dan was wounded and taken prisoner.  He survived a prisoner of war column heading east towards Germany.  His German captors, whom Dad later praised for their mercy, deposited Dad and other wounded soldiers in the town of Tournai, Belgium, where the townspeople treated their wounds and provided shelter for them. 

Dan was later transferred to the VA hospital at Battle Creek, Michigan.  His young wife Jeanne joined him there and they were inseparable ever afterwards.  Dan and Jeanne were long-time residents of Centerport, L.I., N.Y.  They celebrated their 50th anniversary there in 1993.  Jeanne died of Parkinson’s disease at Chandler Hall in Newtown in 2003. 

Dan was a long-time artist for Parents Magazine in New York City.  He loved art and he loved the Great City.  Dan had great charm, imagination, and skill.  There was little that he could not create to entertain his beloved wife, children, relatives, grandchildren, and friends, from personalized, humorous anniversary cards every June 18th to rope swings and rocking horses for the children. 

Dan and Jeanne are survived by their dearly loved children:  Dan Jr., Tom, Mark, and Kathy.  They are also survived by their 11 grandchildren, whom they also loved and enjoyed entertaining with their charm and good spirits.  Among Dan's local grandchildren are Gretchen Jonas of Furlong and Gavin Lawler of Collegeville. 

Dan’s family will receive friends on Thursday, January 3, 2018 from 12 noon until his Funeral Service at 1:30PM in the Joseph A. Fluehr III Funeral Home, 800 Newtown-Richboro Rd. (at Holland Rd.) Richboro, PA 18954.  Interment will follow with Military Funeral Honors in Washington Crossing National Cemetery in Newtown. 

In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may be made to the Guardians of the National Cemetery, P.O. Box 233 Newtown, PA 18940.