Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dixon, Elmer B., 1960 

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Elmer B. Dixon Buried at Sedley 

  FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Elmer Basil Dixon, who died Tuesday, was 
conducted at W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home Thursday by the Rev. Gillian 
C. Bentley, pastor of High Street Methodist Church, and the Rev. Ira D. 
Hudgins, pastor of Franklin Baptist Church.  Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery, 
Sedley. 

  Pallbearers were Willie Burrow, Virgil Derby, Otis Whitley, Ray Johnson, 
Edward Stephenson Jr. and Luther Blythe. 

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ELMER BASIL DIXON

   Elmer Basil Dixon, 79, died Tuesday morning at his home of Pearl Street 
after a long illness. 

   He was the husband of Mrs. Rosebud Caton Dixon and a son of Edward and Mrs. 
Henrietta Boyd Dixon of Pitt County, N.C. 

   A native of Pitt County, he lived in Franklin 35 years and was a member of 
High Street Methodist Church. 

   Besides his widow, surviving are two sons Elmer L. Dixon of Fresno, Calif., 
and Carroll Dixon of Jacksonville, Fla.; three daughter, Mrs. Lawless Cobb of 
Franklin, Mrs. E.E. Springer of Tampa, Fla. and Mrs. G.T. Hundley, Jr., of 
Sedley; two brothers, John Dixon of Bethel, N.C., and Raymond Dixon of 
Norfolk; four sisters, Mrs. C.O. Speight, Mrs. Claude Jones and Mrs. John 
Turner of Greenville, N.C.., and Mrs. Thurman Meaks of Norfolk, eight 
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 

   A funeral service was held at W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home Thursday 
at 2 p.m by the Rev. Gilliam C. Bentley, pastor of High Street Methodist 
Church, with burial in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley. 

   Pallbearers were W.L. Burrow, Virgil Derby, Otis Whitley, Ray Johnson, 
Edwin Stephenson, Jr. and Luther Blythe. 


Elmer Basil DIXON, 
b. 16 Jan 1881, Pitt Co., NC, d. 1 Nov 1960, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 3 Sep 1960, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 38, No. 262, Fri., Nov. 4, 1960, p. 3; 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 56, No. 3, Mon., Nov. 7, 1960, p. 5 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Rosemont list (S-19):
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 

D.Cert. 30268 (Franklin #68) 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Natalie Padgett - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #35095402. 

His parents, Edward Samuel & Henrietta (BOYD) DIXON, and step-mother are 
   buried in the E.S. DIXON family cemetery, Greenville, , Pitt Co., NC. 


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