April 4, 2007

Clyde Dixon

DEXTER, Mo. -- Clyde C. Dixon, 88, of Dexter died Saturday, March 31, 2007, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 9, 1918, at Grayridge, Mo., son of Fred C. and Canna Mae Myers Dixon. He and Ella Mae McKee were married Oct. 15, 1937, at Bloomfield, Mo...

DEXTER, Mo. -- Clyde C. Dixon, 88, of Dexter died Saturday, March 31, 2007, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

He was born July 9, 1918, at Grayridge, Mo., son of Fred C. and Canna Mae Myers Dixon. He and Ella Mae McKee were married Oct. 15, 1937, at Bloomfield, Mo.

Dixon was a retired farmer and livestock trader, and a former oil jobber with Saveway Oil Co. and MFA Oil Co.

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He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II.

Survivors include his wife; four sons, Robert Dixon of Niangua, Mo., Kenneth Dixon of Jackson, Clyde Dixon of Dexter, Darrell Dixon of Jonesboro, Ark.; 13 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters.

The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, with the Revs. Kenneth Biggs and Phil Warren officiating. Burial will be in Dexter Cemetery with full military honors.

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