Freestone County, Texas
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Mexia Daily News newspaper - July 27, 2006 edition


Gloria Dixon

Mrs. Gloria Dixon of 306 Adam Street Teague, passed away among loving family on 
Saturday, July 22, 2006 at the Methodist Hospital of Dallas. Services are 
pending at Moore’s Angelic Funeral Home, 406 Monroe Street, Teague, Texas.

Mrs. Dixon is survived by her sister, Carolyn Milton and husband, Percell of 
Barry, Texas.

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Waco Tribune-Herald 
July 24, 2006 - July 26, 2006

Gloria was a retired Buyer for The Army Air Force Exchange Service and returned
to Teague after retirement in 1986. She was a member of the Jerusalem Missionary
Baptist Church where the Rev. J. McDowell is pastor.

Valedictorian of the Booker T. Washington Class of 1956 in Teague, Gloria 
attended Prairie View A&M University and Texas Southern University in Houston.

Gloria was active in many civic and church organizations. She was the NAACP 
ACTO-SO Youth Council Advisor, 2003 Recipient of the Boyd Cup in Teague; 
Outstanding Citizen of the Year in Teague for the year 2000; Board Member of 
the Teague Community Lord's Storehouse; Member of the Teague Chamber Of 
Commerce; Founder of the Teague Community Theater; Judge for Precinct 2; a 
noted City and County Leader; and Founder of the Virgel Dixon Scholarship Fund.

Gloria was married to MSgt. Loyd Gillespie who was killed in action during the
Viet Nam War. Her 32 year marriage to Virgel Dixon ended in his death in 
February of 2004.

Survivors include her mother, Mrs. Callie Henderson Brown, of Teague; sister, 
Carolyn Milton and husband, Purcell, of Barry, Texas; brothers, Nat Brown and 
wife, Brenda, of Dayton, Ohio, George Brown and wife, Dorothy, of Kansas City,
Mo., Harold Blaine Brown and wife, Ann, of Winston Salem, N.C., Bill Brown, of 
Teague, and Homer Brown and wife, Dena, of Houston; a step-daughter, Tina 
Latimer and husband, Donnie, of Overland Park, Kan. and their children, Braxon 
Flemming, and Brenan and Corey Latimer, of Overland Park, Kan.; aunts, Eva 
Watts and Arrie Bell Brown, both of Teague; ten nieces and nephews; and a host 
of other relatives and friends.

Moore's Angelic Funeral Home, 406 Monroe Street, Teague, Texas.