Edward Stanley Dixon Jr.

Edward Stanley Dixon Jr., 88, died at home after a long illness on Saturday, April 19, 2003.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Thursday in the Fisher Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in Carson Cemetery. Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Edward was known to relatives and friends as Ed or Junior. He was born in Ivanhoe to Edward Stanley Sr. and Pauline Dixon on Jan. 19, 1915, and was the eldest of five children. He married Connie A. Smithey on Oct. 27, 1940, in Dallas, where they lived and had their first four children. They moved to Grapevine where he worked for GMC. They then transferred to Salt Lake City, where he was an area service manager. As he often said, he had the best job in the world because he could travel to surrounding states and combine work with his favorite sport, fishing.

A sincere and honest man who accepted the Lord in his youth at 14 under a pecan tree at his family home outside of Ector, he was a very caring man who always cared for the well-being of his family members. And he had an unusual love for his dogs and other animals. After retiring, Ed and Connie moved and made their home back in Texas, settling in Denison in the country with a stock tank stocked with fish. They named the place Four Oaks. He planted different varieties of pecan trees and fruit trees and gardened for several years.

Survivors: His loving wife of 62 years, Connie A. Dixon; sons, Ronald Edward Dixon, Jimmy Wayne Dixon, David Stanley Dixon and Stephan Paul Dixon; daughters, Beverly Jean Houston and Catherine Ann Hidiburg; 13 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.