DIX, Fred E. Jr. 1926-1966

DIX, REED, KLATT

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 11/18/2013 at 00:52:44

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Thursday, December 1, 1966, Waterloo, Iowa]

Deafh from
Pills Ruled
A Suicide

The body of Fred Dix, Jr., 30, of 602 Home Park Blvd., was discovered in his home by police officers Wednesday evening.

Dr. Paul O'Keefe, county medical examiner, ruled his death was a suicide due to an overdose of sleeping pills. Police said the body was discovered in the bedroom about 8 p.m. when Dix's estranged wife became concerned for his where abouts and notified them. Dr. O'Keefe set the time of death at some time Saturday.

Services for Mr. Dix are pending at the Locke funeral home.

He was born in Waterloo on Sept. 4, 1926, the son of Fred E. and Mildren Reed Dix. He served in World War II in the Pacific on the aircraft carrier Hornet.

On Sept. 12, 1947, in Waterloo he married Marilyn M. Klatt. Mr. Dix was a member of Grace Methodist Church, Teamsters Local 844 and the Disabled American Veterans.

Survivors include his widow, two sons, Michael Joseph, 15, and Scott Allen, 11, both at home, His father, of 1300 W. Donald St.; his Mother, of 602 Home Park Blvd.; a brother, Donald Dix, of Naperville, Ill., and a grandmother, Mrs. Alta Dix, of 1016 Mulberry St.

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[Waterloo Daily Courier, Friday, December 2, 1966]

Funeral services for Fred E. Dix. Jr., 40, of 602 Home Park Blvd., will be Saturday at
at 11 a.m. at the Locke Funeral Home. Dr. C. H. Pettersen, pastor of Grace Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be at the Garden of Memories. Mr. Dix died Wednesday of an overdose of sleeping pills.