Obituary Record

Wallace Perry Dixon
Died on 2/20/1942

Mr. Dixon Dies At 61

Wallace P. Dixon, 61, Tekamah real estate agent and former Blairite, died Friday at his home in Tekamah. Funeral services were held at the Tekamah Methodist Church Monday with the Masonic Lodge in charge of graveside rites at the Tekamah Cemetery.

Wallace Perry Dixon, son of the late Mr. And Mrs. Asa Dixon Sr. of Blair, was born here October 19, 1880. He was married here in February 1901 to Nancy E. Ommerman who died in May 1932. The Dixons went from Blair to a farm near Decatur and returned to Blair briefly before moving to Tekamah in 1909. Mr. Dixon had sold thousands of acres of Burt County farmland during his years in business there.

He is survived by two sons, Dr. Chester D. Dixon of Santa Monica, California and Claude B. Dixon of Tekamah and by two grandchildren. Gifford Dixon of Blair is a nephew.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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Printed in the Washington County Pilot-Tribune on 2/26/1942


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