Davola Faye Dixon (1908-1928)

DIXON, MULNIX, PERRY, HICKMAN, BUCHAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal June 22, 1928 (page 8)

OBITUARY OF DAVOLA DIXON

Orphan Girl Called by Death at St. Anthony

Special to the Journal.
McCallsburg, June 22--The funeral of Davola Dixon was held Friday afternoon at the Christian church at St. Anthony. Rev. Forest Richeson of Marshalltown officiated. The church was filled to overflowing with relatives and friends. The pastor told of her lovely personality and especially of the loving service she gave her grandmother who has been an invalid for several years, and of her being a friend of both old and young. Davola was born July 23, 1908 and died at the St. Thomas hospital at Marshalltown, June 13, 1928, almost 20 years of age. Her mother died when she was small and her father J. J. Dixon died June 8, 1927* The past five years she has made her home most of the time with her aunt, Mrs. Marion Hickman at St. Anthony*, where her grandmother also makes her home. She leaves one sister Mrs. Rose Buchan of Clemons, and a number of other relatives.

Davola had been in failing health for almost two years and has always been quite frail. January 27, she had her tonsils and adenoids removed and an operation on her nose, but the poison had already gone through her system. She spent a few weeks at the Deaconess hospital following the operation then three weeks at the home of her sister, Mrs. Buchan, after which she was taken to Iowa City where she was in the hospital nine weeks, then she was brought back to the St. Thomas hospital at Marshalltown where she was three weeks and died Wednesday, June 13 of leakage of the heart.

A mixed quartet sang three songs "Save by Grace," "No Disappointments in Heaven" and "Lead Me Gently Home, Father." The flowers were many and beautiful. Burial was made in the Clemons cemetery.

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: Davola Faye Dixon was the daughter of Jeremiah J. Dixon and Gertrude Elizabeth Mulnix. Hazel Fern (Mulnix) Hickman, mentioned as her aunt was the daughter of Edward Charles Mulnix and Eliza Mary Perry. Edward Charles Mulnix and Gertrude Elizabeth (Mulnix) Dixon were brother and sister, the children of Patrick M. Mulnix and Mary Ann Hemenway.