Dixie Yeterian

Dixie Lee Yeterian

August 23, 1940 - April 10, 2023

Dixie Lee Yeterian Kiser (nee James), 82, passed away Monday, April 10, 2023, at Heritage Crossing Palliative and Hospice Care in Clovis, California.

She was born on August 23, 1940, in Walker Mine, California to Edna Levina (nee Parmenter) and Ivan Burdick James.

She moved to White Sands, New Mexico and met and married her husband, Vahan Yeterian, in 1959. They moved to Lompoc, California where he was employed as an Aerospace Engineer at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The couple made their home in Lompoc California and raised four children, during which time Dixie earned a Masters degree from UCSB in Psychology.

After she and Vahan divorced, Dixie lived for a brief time in Bakersfield, California and then moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where she taught at Anchorage Alaska University and led metaphysical study groups until 1986.

In 1988, Dixie relocated to the hills above Fresno, California. There she met Albert Lee Kiser in 1991 and had a long and loving relationship. They were married in August of 2007.

Dixie was a natural psychic, born with highly developed intuition. She was very intuitive as a child and demonstrated an uncanny ability to know things she should not have known - she carried that talent throughout her life. She had a daily hour radio show on KLOM during the 70's where the radio audience would call in with questions and ask her advice. Dixie also hosted a weekly television program that aired on Cable Channel 4 in Santa Maria, California.

Her abilities were well known nationwide. She appeared on several television shows and had numerous newspaper and tabloid articles written about her as well as being featured in an episode of Strange but True, a BBC production.

She also worked with the Santa Barbara Sheriff department, the Lompoc Police Department and other law enforcement agencies across the United States to help solve particularly difficult cases.

She was the author of two books (Exploring Psychic Reality in 1976 and Casebook of a Psychic Detective in 1982) and co-authored a third book with Jacqueline Sparks and Sandra Johnson, The Psychic Bluebook.

Dixie will be remembered for her unconditional love, her unwavering commitment to teaching Spiritual truths as she saw them, and her earthy sense of humor. In addition to being an author, she was a mentor, a teacher of metaphysics, a consultant, a mother, a friend. Her love for her family, friends, clients and students was deeply felt by all those around her. She gave her entire being to everyone she encountered.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her siblings Marcine Fausett, Barbara James and Alvin James; her beloved husband Albert Kiser; her sons Jeffery Scott Yeterian and Bradley Keith Yeterian, and her grandson Kirk Keith Yeterian.

She is survived by her brother Lewey James, her son Sean Theodore Yeterian and daughter-in-law Siggy Yeterian of Sierra Vista, Arizona, and daughter Shannon Nevart Anderson and son-in-law Aaron Anderson of Auckland, New Zealand. She is also survived by her daughter-in-law Misty Yeterian of North Fork, California.

She was blessed with three granddaughters: Kaitlin Allen and Keely Allen of Auckland, New Zealand and Elizabeth Arev Yeterian Oliver of Shreveport, Louisiana; and two great grandchildren, Arthur Eaton and Eloise Ballentine of Auckland, New Zealand.

She will never be forgotten by those who knew and loved her well.