Obit: Velma G. Dix

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Gaytha Thompson
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VELMA G. DIX

Alexandria Town Talk, Jan 31, 1998

COLFAX -- Graveside services for Velma Goodwin Dix will be at 2 p.m. today in
Colfax Cemetery with the Rev. Jerrell Paige officiating. Burial will be under
direction of Hixson Bros., Pineville.

Mrs. Dix, 84, of Colfax died Friday, Jan. 30, 1998, at Grant Manor Nursing
Home.

She was manager of the J.A. Bentley Lumber Company boarding house at Zimmerman
for many years. She also worked as room mother at Northwestern State
University and at the Masonic Home for Children. She was a member of Colfax
Baptist Church and Order of Eastern Star.

Survivors include three daughters, Mildred Smith of Gardner, Helen Richards of
Colfax and Gracie Churchman of Sugar Land, Texas; one sister, Mertis Sharp of
Columbia; 25 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from noon until 1:30 p.m. today in the funeral home.