Dixie Boza Savage--son of John Wiley Savage and Leetta ("Ettie") Bundy--was born 18 June 1896 in Blue Ribbon Community, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Carter County, Oklahoma).
In the 1910 US Census in Lone Grove Township, Carter County, Oklahoma, Dixie (age 12) was enumerated living on a general farm with his father John W. Savage (a farmer, age 49), mother Etta (52), and siblings Frank (20), May (18), Bob (16), Bill (14), Lillie (10), and Jim (8).
Dixie registered for the World War I Selective Service on 5 June 1918; his application shows that he was living in Hewitt, Oklahoma, he had brown eyes and dark hair, and he was working on a farm for his brother-in-law, Napoleon Todd, in Wirt, Oklahoma. Dixie entered U.S. Army service on 25 August 1918 as a Private in the 162nd Depot Brigade at Camp Pike, Arkansas. While at Camp Pike, Dixie contracted tuberculosis, and he was honorably discharged on 12 December 1918.
In the 1920 Census, Dixie (an oil pipeline laborer, age 23) was enumerated living in Wilson, Oklahoma with his sister, Lillie Savage Todd (22), and her husband Polie Todd (a wagon driver "freighting to oil fields," age 26). Dixie spent the next few years as a disabled veteran in Veteran's Hospitals trying to recover from TB. Dixie met his future wife--a nurse named Rebecca Roberts--while he was convalescing at a Veteran's Hospital in Sulphur, Murray County, Oklahoma.
On 10 June 1928, Dixie Savage married Roxie Rebecca Roberts--daughter of John Henry Roberts and Hannah Jane Estes--at the Veteran's Hospital in Sulphur, Oklahoma. Dixie and Rebecca built a small farm on the south side of Wilson, Oklahoma where they raised chickens.
Dixie and Rebecca Savage had two children:
(1) Naomi Ruth Savage (1929 - 2009)
(2) Living (1932 - )
In the 1940 Census, Dixie B. Savage (43, no occupation) was enumerated in Hewitt Township, Carter County, Oklahoma with his wife Rebecca (42) and two children (ages 10 and 7). In June 1943, Dixie, Rebecca, and their two children moved to Fresno, California due to the health of their daughter, Naomi.
As an ordained minister, Dixie spent time as chaplain of the Fresno County General Hospital; however, most records listed his occupation as "disabled veteran." On 22 April 1948, Dixie Savage died in his sleep at home in Fresno. He had gone to bed early that night, being tired from preaching the eulogy at a funeral the day before. The cause of death, according to his death certificate, was a coronary occulsion.
His obituary in the 30 April 1948 edition of The Fresno [California] Bee reads:
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SAVAGE--In Fresno, April 22, 1948, Dixie B. Savage, a native of Oklahoma, aged 51 years. Beloved husband of Rebecca Savage of Fresno; loving father of Kenneth Savage, Mrs. Naomi Hunke of Fresno; loving brother of Leonard, William, Frank, Robert, James Savage, Mrs. Effie Gaston, Mrs. May Stone, all of Oklahoma. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services to be held in the chapel of the Lisle Funeral Home, L and Calaveras Streets, on Saturday morning, April 24th, at eleven thirty o'clock, Rev. Irving E. Penberthy officiating.
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Biography submitted by Jimmy P. Hunke
In the 1910 US Census in Lone Grove Township, Carter County, Oklahoma, Dixie (age 12) was enumerated living on a general farm with his father John W. Savage (a farmer, age 49), mother Etta (52), and siblings Frank (20), May (18), Bob (16), Bill (14), Lillie (10), and Jim (8).
Dixie registered for the World War I Selective Service on 5 June 1918; his application shows that he was living in Hewitt, Oklahoma, he had brown eyes and dark hair, and he was working on a farm for his brother-in-law, Napoleon Todd, in Wirt, Oklahoma. Dixie entered U.S. Army service on 25 August 1918 as a Private in the 162nd Depot Brigade at Camp Pike, Arkansas. While at Camp Pike, Dixie contracted tuberculosis, and he was honorably discharged on 12 December 1918.
In the 1920 Census, Dixie (an oil pipeline laborer, age 23) was enumerated living in Wilson, Oklahoma with his sister, Lillie Savage Todd (22), and her husband Polie Todd (a wagon driver "freighting to oil fields," age 26). Dixie spent the next few years as a disabled veteran in Veteran's Hospitals trying to recover from TB. Dixie met his future wife--a nurse named Rebecca Roberts--while he was convalescing at a Veteran's Hospital in Sulphur, Murray County, Oklahoma.
On 10 June 1928, Dixie Savage married Roxie Rebecca Roberts--daughter of John Henry Roberts and Hannah Jane Estes--at the Veteran's Hospital in Sulphur, Oklahoma. Dixie and Rebecca built a small farm on the south side of Wilson, Oklahoma where they raised chickens.
Dixie and Rebecca Savage had two children:
(1) Naomi Ruth Savage (1929 - 2009)
(2) Living (1932 - )
In the 1940 Census, Dixie B. Savage (43, no occupation) was enumerated in Hewitt Township, Carter County, Oklahoma with his wife Rebecca (42) and two children (ages 10 and 7). In June 1943, Dixie, Rebecca, and their two children moved to Fresno, California due to the health of their daughter, Naomi.
As an ordained minister, Dixie spent time as chaplain of the Fresno County General Hospital; however, most records listed his occupation as "disabled veteran." On 22 April 1948, Dixie Savage died in his sleep at home in Fresno. He had gone to bed early that night, being tired from preaching the eulogy at a funeral the day before. The cause of death, according to his death certificate, was a coronary occulsion.
His obituary in the 30 April 1948 edition of The Fresno [California] Bee reads:
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SAVAGE--In Fresno, April 22, 1948, Dixie B. Savage, a native of Oklahoma, aged 51 years. Beloved husband of Rebecca Savage of Fresno; loving father of Kenneth Savage, Mrs. Naomi Hunke of Fresno; loving brother of Leonard, William, Frank, Robert, James Savage, Mrs. Effie Gaston, Mrs. May Stone, all of Oklahoma. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services to be held in the chapel of the Lisle Funeral Home, L and Calaveras Streets, on Saturday morning, April 24th, at eleven thirty o'clock, Rev. Irving E. Penberthy officiating.
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Biography submitted by Jimmy P. Hunke
Dixie Boza Savage--son of John Wiley Savage and Leetta ("Ettie") Bundy--was born 18 June 1896 in Blue Ribbon Community, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Carter County, Oklahoma).
In the 1910 US Census in Lone Grove Township, Carter County, Oklahoma, Dixie (age 12) was enumerated living on a general farm with his father John W. Savage (a farmer, age 49), mother Etta (52), and siblings Frank (20), May (18), Bob (16), Bill (14), Lillie (10), and Jim (8).
Dixie registered for the World War I Selective Service on 5 June 1918; his application shows that he was living in Hewitt, Oklahoma, he had brown eyes and dark hair, and he was working on a farm for his brother-in-law, Napoleon Todd, in Wirt, Oklahoma. Dixie entered U.S. Army service on 25 August 1918 as a Private in the 162nd Depot Brigade at Camp Pike, Arkansas. While at Camp Pike, Dixie contracted tuberculosis, and he was honorably discharged on 12 December 1918.
In the 1920 Census, Dixie (an oil pipeline laborer, age 23) was enumerated living in Wilson, Oklahoma with his sister, Lillie Savage Todd (22), and her husband Polie Todd (a wagon driver "freighting to oil fields," age 26). Dixie spent the next few years as a disabled veteran in Veteran's Hospitals trying to recover from TB. Dixie met his future wife--a nurse named Rebecca Roberts--while he was convalescing at a Veteran's Hospital in Sulphur, Murray County, Oklahoma.
On 10 June 1928, Dixie Savage married Roxie Rebecca Roberts--daughter of John Henry Roberts and Hannah Jane Estes--at the Veteran's Hospital in Sulphur, Oklahoma. Dixie and Rebecca built a small farm on the south side of Wilson, Oklahoma where they raised chickens.
Dixie and Rebecca Savage had two children:
(1) Naomi Ruth Savage (1929 - 2009)
(2) Living (1932 - )
In the 1940 Census, Dixie B. Savage (43, no occupation) was enumerated in Hewitt Township, Carter County, Oklahoma with his wife Rebecca (42) and two children (ages 10 and 7). In June 1943, Dixie, Rebecca, and their two children moved to Fresno, California due to the health of their daughter, Naomi.
As an ordained minister, Dixie spent time as chaplain of the Fresno County General Hospital; however, most records listed his occupation as "disabled veteran." On 22 April 1948, Dixie Savage died in his sleep at home in Fresno. He had gone to bed early that night, being tired from preaching the eulogy at a funeral the day before. The cause of death, according to his death certificate, was a coronary occulsion.
His obituary in the 30 April 1948 edition of The Fresno [California] Bee reads:
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SAVAGE--In Fresno, April 22, 1948, Dixie B. Savage, a native of Oklahoma, aged 51 years. Beloved husband of Rebecca Savage of Fresno; loving father of Kenneth Savage, Mrs. Naomi Hunke of Fresno; loving brother of Leonard, William, Frank, Robert, James Savage, Mrs. Effie Gaston, Mrs. May Stone, all of Oklahoma. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services to be held in the chapel of the Lisle Funeral Home, L and Calaveras Streets, on Saturday morning, April 24th, at eleven thirty o'clock, Rev. Irving E. Penberthy officiating.
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Biography submitted by Jimmy P. Hunke
In the 1910 US Census in Lone Grove Township, Carter County, Oklahoma, Dixie (age 12) was enumerated living on a general farm with his father John W. Savage (a farmer, age 49), mother Etta (52), and siblings Frank (20), May (18), Bob (16), Bill (14), Lillie (10), and Jim (8).
Dixie registered for the World War I Selective Service on 5 June 1918; his application shows that he was living in Hewitt, Oklahoma, he had brown eyes and dark hair, and he was working on a farm for his brother-in-law, Napoleon Todd, in Wirt, Oklahoma. Dixie entered U.S. Army service on 25 August 1918 as a Private in the 162nd Depot Brigade at Camp Pike, Arkansas. While at Camp Pike, Dixie contracted tuberculosis, and he was honorably discharged on 12 December 1918.
In the 1920 Census, Dixie (an oil pipeline laborer, age 23) was enumerated living in Wilson, Oklahoma with his sister, Lillie Savage Todd (22), and her husband Polie Todd (a wagon driver "freighting to oil fields," age 26). Dixie spent the next few years as a disabled veteran in Veteran's Hospitals trying to recover from TB. Dixie met his future wife--a nurse named Rebecca Roberts--while he was convalescing at a Veteran's Hospital in Sulphur, Murray County, Oklahoma.
On 10 June 1928, Dixie Savage married Roxie Rebecca Roberts--daughter of John Henry Roberts and Hannah Jane Estes--at the Veteran's Hospital in Sulphur, Oklahoma. Dixie and Rebecca built a small farm on the south side of Wilson, Oklahoma where they raised chickens.
Dixie and Rebecca Savage had two children:
(1) Naomi Ruth Savage (1929 - 2009)
(2) Living (1932 - )
In the 1940 Census, Dixie B. Savage (43, no occupation) was enumerated in Hewitt Township, Carter County, Oklahoma with his wife Rebecca (42) and two children (ages 10 and 7). In June 1943, Dixie, Rebecca, and their two children moved to Fresno, California due to the health of their daughter, Naomi.
As an ordained minister, Dixie spent time as chaplain of the Fresno County General Hospital; however, most records listed his occupation as "disabled veteran." On 22 April 1948, Dixie Savage died in his sleep at home in Fresno. He had gone to bed early that night, being tired from preaching the eulogy at a funeral the day before. The cause of death, according to his death certificate, was a coronary occulsion.
His obituary in the 30 April 1948 edition of The Fresno [California] Bee reads:
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SAVAGE--In Fresno, April 22, 1948, Dixie B. Savage, a native of Oklahoma, aged 51 years. Beloved husband of Rebecca Savage of Fresno; loving father of Kenneth Savage, Mrs. Naomi Hunke of Fresno; loving brother of Leonard, William, Frank, Robert, James Savage, Mrs. Effie Gaston, Mrs. May Stone, all of Oklahoma. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services to be held in the chapel of the Lisle Funeral Home, L and Calaveras Streets, on Saturday morning, April 24th, at eleven thirty o'clock, Rev. Irving E. Penberthy officiating.
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Biography submitted by Jimmy P. Hunke
Inscription
[Christian Cross]
DIXIE B. SAVAGE
OKLAHOMA
PVT 162 DEPOT BRIG
WORLD WAR I
18 JUNE 1896 - 22 APRIL 1948
