GUY DIXON
1877-1953
Wittensville Man Dies Friday, Victim Of Stroke
Guy Dixon, 75, Prominent Farmer Buried Sunday
Guy Dixon, 75, widely known farmer of Wittensville, died in a local
hospital at 12:05 a.m. Friday, January 2. He suffered a stroke that was
followed by pneumonia, and had been ill about one week.
Mr. Dixon was born February 22, 1877, a son of the late Isaac and
Margurite May Dixon, and had been a resident of Johnson County his entire
life. He followed farming as an occupation.
Mr. Dixon was preceded in death by his first wife, Mary Lou McKenzie and
by his second wife, Marguerite Slone Dixon.
Surviving are his widow, Anna Childers Dixon, Roy Dixon of Overpeak,
Ohio, two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Wilcox, Wittensville, Mrs. Merlie
Kimmerlee, Dayton, Ohio, and the following brother and sisters, Don
Dixon, Ashland, Ky., Mrs. Jim McKenzie, and Mrs. Langley Preston, both of
Sitka, and Mrs. Warren Van Hoose of Frankfort, Kentucky.
Funeral services were held Sunday at 10:00 a.m. at the Freewill Baptist
Church at Nippa by Reverend Claude Preston and Reverend Harry Salyer.
Burial was made in the family cemetery under the direction of the
Paintsville Funeral Home.
Paintsville Herald
Wednesday
01-07-1953
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