Obit for Hazel Dickerson
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
Dated April 01, 2001
1/26/2002 by Bill Cook, for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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Hazel Bell Metcalf Charlton Dickerson, 92, of Dennison, Texas, former Hollis resident, died Friday, Feb. 2, 
2001. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church of Hollis with Pastor Jim 
Westmoreland officiating. Interment will follow at Fairmount Cemetery.
Dickerson was born Dec. 21, 1908, to Walter Raymond and Emma Geneva Curb Metcalf in the Metcalf 
Community north of Gould.
She attended grade school there as well as the Metcalf Baptist Church. In 1921, the family moved to a farm 
one mile south of Hollis. She graduated from Hollis High School in 1927. Her first job away from Hollis was with 
the American National Life Insurance Company in Galveston, Texas. She returned to Hollis and was employed 
at the "Doc" Charlton grocery where she met Robert Payton "Dick" Charlton. They were married on Sept. 27, 
1936, in Franklin, Texas. They established a home in Altus where her husband operated a hatchery during part 
of the year. The rest of the year they traveled throughout the southern states where Mr. Charlton sold patent 
medicine. During these travels, she collected antiques.
Her husband died of a heart attack in 1945, five years after the birth of their daughter. Dickerson and her 
daughter moved back to Hollis where she worked for C.R. Anthony and the Hollis Cotton Oil Mill. For the next 
15 years, she worked for Public Service Company in Hollis. She served as treasurer of the First Baptist Church 
for a number of years.
In 1961, she married Garland Dickerson. They established a home in Borger, Texas, where he was teaching 
school. They lived there until 1972. During their summers, the couple worked the Baptist Conference Facility in 
Glorieta, N.M. She kept books and Garland provided transportation for the staff and a couple of years they 
supervised the cafeteria.
When her husband retired in 1972, they moved to Amarillo, Texas, and devoted most of their time to volunteer 
work. The couple then moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, in the late 1980's, to be near her daughter.
Following her husband's death on Aug. 4, 1989, she lived in Elk City until 1993. In Elk City she was active in 
the First Baptist Church until moving to the McKinney-Dennison, Texas, area.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Paul and James Metcalf; one grandson, Preston 
Sexton and one sister-in-law, Geraldine Metcalf.
Survivors include: three children, Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Forney of Dennison, Texas; Forrest Dickerson of 
Carlsbad, N.M. and Betty Dickerson Sexton of Corpus Christi, Texas; 10 grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren; 
three brothers, W.R. Metcalf of Oklahoma City, Harold Metcalf of Elk City and Bill Metcalf of Robertsdale, Ala.; 
four sisters-in-law, and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
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1/26/2002
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