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Submitted: 3/13/20 • Approved: 3/13/20 • Last Updated: 3/16/20 • R1303665-G1303664-S3
John
October 3, 1893 - March 20, 1973
Lorena
April 2, 1916 - January 17, 2011
*Obituary
Mrs. Lorena Darnall Dixon, age 94, of DeQueen, Arkansas, died Monday, January 17, 2011 in the DeQueen Medical Center.
Mrs. Dixon was born April 2, 1916 in Columbus, Arkansas, the daughter of Dr. Henry H. and Laura Stuart Darnall. She grew up in Columbus and graduated from Columbus High School in 1934. After graduating from a business school in Amarillo, Texas, she returned to Foreman, Arkansas, where she was employed at the local bank. Later she went to work for the Little River County welfare department until she met her husband, John L. Dixon. The couple moved to De Queen where Lorena worked in the Sevier County Courthouse. In 1949 she began a career as secretary to the Superintendent of Schools that would span four decades and the tenures of four superintendents. She retired from the De Queen Public School System in 1983.
Mrs. Dixon was a devout and dedicated Christian and was a loyal member of the First United Methodist Church of DeQueen.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two brothers, Herbert Darnall and Charles Darnall; and one sister, Frances Bryant.
Mrs. Dixon is survived by three nephews, Rex Stuart Darnall and his wife Katie on Panhandle, Texas, Charles T. Darnall and his wife Pam of Eagle River, Alaska, and John D. Darnall and his wife, Debby of Harrison, Arkansas; one niece, Emily Vonk and her husband, Harold of Ogden, Utah. Having no children of her own, Mrs. Dixon always felt that God had called her to be a mother to the many students that came through the De Queen Public School System. She was a very special person who will be greatly missed.
Graveside Funeral Services for Mrs. Dixon will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 19, 2011 in the Redmen Cemetery with John Darnall officiating, under the direction of Wilkerson Funeral Home.
Contributed on 3/13/20 by MryAl8
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