Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dixon, Jean Barrentine Jones June 9, 2013
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The Berrien Press - June 12, 2013
Jean Barrentine Jones Dixon, 89, of Alapaha died June 9, 2013 at her residence.
 She was born July 23, 1923, in Coffee County to the late Joseph and Genora 
Walker Barrentine. She was a homemaker and for many years served as bookkeeper 
for Dixon LP Gas Company and C.M. Dixon Fertilizer Company. She was a charter 
member of Alapaha Baptist Church where she faithfully served in many 
capacities. She was a strong supporter and worker in the Women's Missionary 
Union and served as a trustee for the Georgia Baptist Children's Home. She also 
served in many charitable organizations including the Berrien County Unit of 
the American Cancer Society of which she was co-chairperson for a number of 
years. She was the widow of Willis Herbert Jones who died in 1955 and Carl 
Mathis Dixon who died in 1983. She is also preceded in death by two sisters, 
Thelma Schauffer and Addie McMillan; four brothers, Alton Barrentine, Thomas 
Barrentine, Eutychus Barrentin and Woodrow Barrentine; a grandson, Bert Jones; 
two sons-in-law, Joy Tully and Paul Crisp.
 Survivors include two daughters, Joyce Tully of Colquitt and Mary Ellen Crisp 
of Nashville; four sons and three sisters-in-law, Wayne and Michele Jones of 
Nashville, Steve and Rhonda Dixon, Joe and Marian Dixon and Mark Dixon and 
fiance' Charlotte Ward, all of Alapaha; 16 grandchildren, 31 great-
grandchildren; several great-great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews.
 Funeral services were held June 11 at 11 a.m. at Alapaha Baptist Church with 
the Rev. Mike Gibbs, pastor and Rev. Kenneth Kicklighter of Sycamore 
officiating. Jaclyn Dixon Ford, granddaughter gave a eulogy. Marsha Smith of 
Colquitt, pianist/organist, played the processional and recessional, and the 
Alapaha Baptist Church choir sang "It is Well With My Soul," accompanied by 
Darlene Turner. Matt Dixon, pianist and Joel Dixon, guitarist, played and 
sang "I Can Only Imagine." The service ended with the church choir and 
congregation singing "How Great Thou Art," accompanied by Marsha Smith, with 
Jake Ford as Soloist.
 Interment followed at Oakridge Cemetery in Tifton.
 Pallbearers were Trace Stovall, Guy Stovall, Carl Mathis Dixon, Quentin, Matt 
Dixon, John Dixon, Joel Dixon, Woody Spurlock, Dick Spurlock.
 Memorials may be sent to the Alapaha Baptist Church building fund, Alapaha, GA 
or Hospice of Tiftarea, Tifton, GA.
 Lovein Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

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