Mary "Fonda" Graham Dixon

She made her profession in Jesus as a very young child and enjoyed going to church as long as her health permitted. She also was an avid cook and gardener. She was a homemaker and worked on the family farm.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years: Edgar “Tommy” Dixon; one daughter, Bobbie “Linda” Southerland and son-in-law, James “Jim Bob” Southerland; grandson, Casey Lynn Southerland; and one sister and brother-in-law: Fredia and Johnny Britton.

Survivors include one granddaughter, Jamie Amanda Southerland, and fiancé, Justin Bishop of Mt. Gilead, Ohio; two special great grandsons, Casey James Southerland and Landen Jay Bishop; cousins: Gladys Tullock, Sammy Tullock, Helen Gaddis, and Martha Arwood; and friends: Jerry and Faye Wills, Judy Jackson, Patsy Gibson, Marie Tweed, Alan and Shane Tweed, Nancy Clever and the late Gerald Clever, and members of Hill Street Church of God.

The family will receive friends 1-3 and 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Kiser-Rose Hill Funeral Home.

The funeral service will be held at 7:00 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Jack Kirkendall officiating.

Interment will be at 11:00 a.m. Friday in Fairview CP Cemetery. Family and friends are asked to meet at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Friday to go in procession to the cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Rev. Mark Wills, Eric Wills, Aaron Wills, Clyde Payne, Alan Tweed, Ronnie Hoard, Daniel Chandler, John Morehead, and Rev. Ricky Brotherton.

Honorary pallbearers are Dr. Charles Montgomery and staff, Bill and Carolyn Burgess, Shane Tweed, Carroll Babb, Sammy Tullock, and the Adult Sunday School class of Hill Street Church of God.