Obit – Mrs. Polly Dixon
Buffalo Community homemaker, Mrs. Polly Dixon, transitioned from her earthly journey to her heavenly home at 2:50 a.m. Wednesday morning November 6, 2024 at her Buffalo Road home with her family at her bedside. Mrs. Dixon was pronounced deceased by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston twenty days before her 92nd birthday.
Mrs. Dixon was at the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home.
Funeral services from the Kempville Chapel Old Time Methodist Church were conducted by her pastor, Bro. Bryan Bratcher and her nephew Bro. Steve Waller. Following the 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon November 9th services, burial was beside her husband in section five at the Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens.
Born Gladys Maibell Givens in the Defeated Creek Community on November 27, 1932, she was the daughter of the late Vassie Elvira Givens Lee who died at the age of 64 on February 11, 1975 as the result of a fall while visiting in Joliet, Illinois.
Mrs. Dixon was united in marriage to Kempville Community native J. W. (Biggen) Dixon in Gallatin on March 24, 1956. The ceremony was performed by magistrate Bethel Brown. Her husband preceded her in death on July 23, 1986 at the age of 52 following a battle with cancer. They had only been married for thirty years.
She was also preceded in death by a brother, J. C. Lee who died in North Carolina, by a granddaughter, Shandra Neshay Dixon who died September 29, 2012 at the age of 28 and by a grandson-in-law, Tommy Roberts who died at the age of 57 on January 15, 2024.
Mrs. Dixon was a charter member of the Kempville Chapel Old Time Methodist Church.
Survivors include three children, Stan Dixon and wife Kimberly of the Buffalo Community, Kathy (Kat) Dixon of South Carthage, Cindy Holland and husband Eddie of the Bagdad Community; five grandchildren, Tiffany Montgomery and husband Chris of the Defeated Creek Community, Tecia Roberts of South Carthage, Kyle Dixon of Knoxville, Kandra Preston of the Buffalo Community, Brittany Kennedy and husband David of the Defeated Creek Community; eight great-grandchildren.
SANDERSON of KEMPVILLE
