OBIT: Sarah E. (ROACH) DIXON, 1962, native of Blair County, PA

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SARAH ELLEN DIXON  

  Funeral rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday for Mrs. Sarah 
Ellen Dixon, 80, of Osceola Mills, who died Saturday night in the 
Philipsburg State General Hospital.  She had been ill for six weeks.
  Born in Tyrone, January 21, 1882, she was the daughter of Wilson and 
Harriet Bailey Roach.  Her husband, David E., died in 1920.
  Surviving are the following 14 children: Harriet, wife of Calvin 
Miller, Osceola Mills; Wilson, at home; Minnie, wife of Walter Bacher, 
Ramey; Elizabeth, wife of William Boggan, Philipsburg; Mrs. Charlotte 
Bryan, Osceola Mills; Bertha, wife of Clifford Swisher, Lewistown; 
David, Sandy Ridge; Robert, Tonowanda, N. Y.; John and Theodore of 
Osceola Mills; Ernest, Munson; Frank, Osceola Mills; Calvin, 
Philipsburg; and Harvey, Sandy Ridge.  
  Forty-nine grandchildren and 37 great grandchildren also survive, 
along with these brothers and sisters:  Mrs. Bertha Nichols, and Mrs. 
Charlotte Langer, both of Altoona; Mrs. Nina Gravish, Frank Roach and 
Mrs. Catherine Frantz, all of Osceola Mills. 
  Mrs. Dixon was a member of the C. M. & A. church.
  Services will be held from the Heath Funeral Home in Osceola with the 
Rev. John Richmond and the Rev. Stewart Mason officiating.  Burial will 
follow in the Umbria Cemetery.  
  Friends will be received tonight at the Heath Funeral Home.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Monday, April 16, 1962