Vicksburg Evening Post, Vicksburg, MS Thursday March 3, 1983
M.E. Dixon Funeral Friday
Services for M.E. Dixon, who died Tuesday following a brief illness, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Glenwood Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Terrell Earnest officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. He was 79.
Mr. Dixon was a lifelong resident of Warren County, and owned and operated Standard Oil Service Stations in the city and later in the County. He was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Maggie Leist Dixon of Vicksburg, four daughters: Mrs Vera Snow of Wooster, Ohio, Mrs. Bobbie Dunn, Mrs. Doris Williams, and Mrs. Martha Boone of Vicksburg, three sons: Maurice Dixon, JR. of Waco, Texas, Lonnie Ray Dixon of St. Louis, Mo, James E Dixon of Vicksburg, 22 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Herman Alford, Tom Allen, Gene Williams, Excell Dunn, David Boone, and Homer Herring.
Honorary pallbearers will be Carl Kelly, Robert Cunningham, Joe Durst, George E Abraham, Joe Odom, Dr. Joe Ross, Dr. Robert Shell, and Dr. Briggs Hopson.
Vicksburg Evening Post, Vicksburg, MS Thursday March 3, 1983
M.E. Dixon Funeral Friday
Services for M.E. Dixon, who died Tuesday following a brief illness, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Glenwood Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Terrell Earnest officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. He was 79.
Mr. Dixon was a lifelong resident of Warren County, and owned and operated Standard Oil Service Stations in the city and later in the County. He was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Maggie Leist Dixon of Vicksburg, four daughters: Mrs Vera Snow of Wooster, Ohio, Mrs. Bobbie Dunn, Mrs. Doris Williams, and Mrs. Martha Boone of Vicksburg, three sons: Maurice Dixon, JR. of Waco, Texas, Lonnie Ray Dixon of St. Louis, Mo, James E Dixon of Vicksburg, 22 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Herman Alford, Tom Allen, Gene Williams, Excell Dunn, David Boone, and Homer Herring.
Honorary pallbearers will be Carl Kelly, Robert Cunningham, Joe Durst, George E Abraham, Joe Odom, Dr. Joe Ross, Dr. Robert Shell, and Dr. Briggs Hopson.
Inscription
"His words were kindness, his deeds were love, his spirit humble, he rests above"
husband of Margaret Butts and Maggie Mae Leist Hackler
Gravesite Details
father of Maurice Ervin Dixon, Jr., Lonnie Ray, James Ervin Sr., and Martha Marie Dixon Smith Boone, son of James Oscar and Martha Ann Clarke Dixon
Family Members
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James Burnell "Burney" Dixon
1890–1966
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Luther Henry Dixon
1892–1950
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Albert Kenneth Dixon
1894–1956
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Emma Dixon Broussard
1896–1964
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Golena Dixon Dickson
1899–1964
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Oscar Dixon
1901–1902
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James Oscar "Jim" Dixon Jr
1901–1951
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Chester Clifton Dixon
1905–1976
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Victor Decalb "Dick" Dixon
1908–1973
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Louise Dorothea (Southall) Dixon Parsons
1910–1981
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Wiley George Dixon
1913–1931
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