Annie Nix Dixon, 83, of Ocilla, Georgia, died Sunday, December 19, 2004, at Summerhill Nursing Home in Perry, Georgia.
Funeral services will be held 4 P.M. Wednesday, December 22, 2004, at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Irwin County, with the Rev. John Gibbs, Jr., and the Rev. Bobby Stone officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 7:00 until 9:00, Tuesday evening at the funeral home in Ocilla.
Mrs. Dixon was born April 19, 1921, in Turner County, Georgia, to the late Horace O. and Minnie Yarbrough Nix. She lived in Irwin and Ben Hill Counties most of her life and was a former employee of Modern Fibers and Davis Department Store. Mrs. Dixon was a member and kept the church nursery at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Irwin County.
Mrs. Dixon is survived by her three children: Nas Dixon, Jr., Ocilla, Linda D. (Rodger) Fuller and Neil (Lisa) Dixon, both of Haynesville; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; four sisters: Annie Lee Luke, Fitzgerald, Myrtle Fuller, Macon, Margaret Dawson, Covington and Maurice Robinson, Macon. She was preceded in death by her husband, Nas Dixon, Sr., a granddaughter, Kelly Ann Dixon, four sisters and one brother.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Bethlehem Baptist Church Building Fund, 404 Daffodil Rd., Ocilla, GA 31774.