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

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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.

*This obit’s paper was light and hard to read 
 but I think I got most of it right. (bs) 

[Elmer Basil DIXON, 
 Pitt Co., NC native, d. 1 Nov 1960, at home, Franklin, age 79, 
 interred in Rosemont Cemetery**, Sedley, 3 Sep 1960, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 7, 1960, p. 5] 

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

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