Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dixon, Odie B. Griggs, 1959 

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Mrs. Odie Dixon Funeral Sunday 

  CHUCKATUCK - Funeral services for Mrs. Odie Griggs Dixon will be conducted 
Sunday at 2 p.m. at Whitehead's Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. Mr. Madison, 
pastor, and the Rev. Jesse King, a former pastor.  Burial will be in Antioch 
Christian Church Cemetery. 

  The body was taken to the Hill Funeral Home, Suffolk. 

  Mrs. Dixon, 57, wife of J.C. Dixon of Chuckatuck, died Thursday at 8 a.m. 
in Sacred Heart Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., after a long illness. 

  She was a member of Whitehead's Grove Baptist Church.  Her late parents were 
Thad Griggs of Gates County, and Mrs. Annie Holland Griggs of Isle of Wight 
County. 

  Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Ethel Parker of Portsmouth; four sons, 
Silas Gay of Windsor; B.P. Gay of Portsmouth; Lelton [sic; Littleton] Gay and 
Homer Gay, both of Nansemond County; four sisters, Mrs. G.W. Edwards and Mrs. 
Maude Braswell, both of Windsor; Mrs. Bally Gay of Isle of Wight County, and 
Mrs. Waddie Bassett of South Norfolk; three brothers, Johnny Griggs, of 
Norfolk; Sidney Griggs and Richard Griggs, both of Windsor, and nieces and 
nephews. 

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Rites Today For Mrs. Odie Dixon 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Odie Griggs Dixon, who died Thursday will be 
conducted today at 2 p.m. at Whitehead's Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. Mr. 
Madison, pastor, and the Rev. Jesse King of Newport News, a former pastor. 
Burial will be in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery. 

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Mrs. Odie Dixon Buried Yesterday 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Odie Griggs Dixon were conducted Sunday afternoon 
at Whitehead's Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. D.V. Madison, pastor.  Burial 
was in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery. 

  The church choir sang "Rock of Ages" and "In The Sweet Bye and Bye," 
accompanied at the organ by Miss Brenda Brock. Frank Drewry sang "Sunrise." 

  The casket was covered with a pall of red carnations. 

  Pallbearers were Edward Dixon, Calvin New, Willie G. Edwards, Russell Jay, 
Floyd Jay, George Robert Jay, Curtis Stanley and C.C. Jay. 


Odie Blanche (GRIGGS GAY; Mrs. John Cornelius) DIXON, 
b. 3 Jan 1902, Isle of Wight Co., d. 11 Jun 1959, Philadelphia, PA, 
interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 14 Jun 1959, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 139, Fri., June 12, 1959, p. 3; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 140, Sun., June 14, 1959, p. 15; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 141, Mon., June 15, 1959, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 

Unmarked?  Not on: 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

D.Cert. 58716 (Philadelphia #11718) 

Find a Grave Memorial #201142898 [no photo] 

Her parents & first husband Clarence Homer GAY (1893 - 1945) are also 
   buried there. 

His obits ("Suffolk News-Herald" & "Smithfield Times," Sep. 1945) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/g000c2ob.txt 

Her second husband (1906 - 1980) is buried in Uzzell's Methodist Church 
   Cemetery.  {IWCHS GSSTF report #13} 


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