Mervin F. DIXON

DIXON, DICKINSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/3/2014 at 14:17:05

May 10, 1871 ---- October 19, 1937

WELL KNOWN ENGINEER DIES
Mervin F. Dixon of Eagle Grove Dies Oct. 19th at Rochester, Minn.

Engineer Mervin F. Dixon of Eagle Grove passed away in a hospital at Rochester, Minn., Tuesday morning of last week from heart trouble from which he had been suffering for several months. He came to Hawarden on Monday of the previous week on his regular run but did not feel able to come out on Wednesday. With Mrs. Dixon he drove to Rochester the following day to consult the Mayo clinic and he entered a hospital for treatment and apparently was getting along all right. He was sitting in bed reading a letter Tuesday morning, Oct. 19th, when he collapsed. Mrs. Dixon summoned a nurse and doctors who found that he had passed on.

Mr. Dixon was No. 2 on the engineer's seniority list of the Northern Iowa division of the North Western. He was 66 years of age and had been employed by the North Western Railway company for 45 years. He entered the employ of the company as a fireman in 1892 and was promoted to engineer in 1898. He entered the employ of the company at the same time that L. D. Dickinson of Hawarden did and through all these years they had been close friends. Mr. Dickinson went to Eagle Grove last Thursday to attend the funeral which was held last Friday. He is survived by his wife and one son, Harold, of Chicago. A daughter preceded him in death.

Hawarden Independent - Hawarden, Iowa
October 28, 1937

[buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Eagle Grove, Iowa]