George Dewey Dicken (1898-1940) was the youngest son of Absalom (Abner) Dicken (1844-c1905) and Abner's second wife, Nora Alice Dicken (1879-1915). Abner and Alice's last child, Ida Mae (Dicken) Young, Dewey's only sibling and sister, was born when Dewey was 8 years old. After Abner passed away, sometime after 1905, we find Alice, George D. age 11, and Ida M. age 4 living with Alice's mother, Otilla (Lawhorn) Dicken, widow of James Alexander Dicken. Alice died in 1915 of heart disease at the young age of 36. The following year,21 Jun 1916, just barely the legal age to do so, Dewey entered the U.S. Army and became an SFC during WWI. His headstone order lists honorable discharge as 4 Jun 1920, Sgt 1st Class Med Det. After his discharge he settled in Texas and about 1922 Dewey is married in Uphur Co., TX to Maude Loftis (1891-1968), daughter of William and Nora (Calvert) Loftis. On 18 March 1922, Dewey and Maude had a daughter, Gwendolyn Evelyn (Dicken) Hunt. We find the three of them in the 1930 census living on Maude's parent's farm at Pittsburg and Samsonville Rd., Camp Co., TX. Dewey is employed as a salesman for a lighting plant. In July 1940 Dewey died of TB and acute appendicitis at the Veteran's Administration Facility in Legion, TX where he had been treated for 2 weeks prior to his death. His death certificate shows that he was working in the automobile business and living in Kerrville, Kerr Co., TX before he passed away on 16 July 1940. He is buried at the Legion Memorial Cemetery in Legion, TX. (Sources: family, photo; 1900, 1910, 1930 census; Tx Death Cert; US Veteran Gravesites; his half-brother, John Dicken's, {1878-1953] obituary online.)
George Dewey Dicken (1898-1940) was the youngest son of Absalom (Abner) Dicken (1844-c1905) and Abner's second wife, Nora Alice Dicken (1879-1915). Abner and Alice's last child, Ida Mae (Dicken) Young, Dewey's only sibling and sister, was born when Dewey was 8 years old. After Abner passed away, sometime after 1905, we find Alice, George D. age 11, and Ida M. age 4 living with Alice's mother, Otilla (Lawhorn) Dicken, widow of James Alexander Dicken. Alice died in 1915 of heart disease at the young age of 36. The following year,21 Jun 1916, just barely the legal age to do so, Dewey entered the U.S. Army and became an SFC during WWI. His headstone order lists honorable discharge as 4 Jun 1920, Sgt 1st Class Med Det. After his discharge he settled in Texas and about 1922 Dewey is married in Uphur Co., TX to Maude Loftis (1891-1968), daughter of William and Nora (Calvert) Loftis. On 18 March 1922, Dewey and Maude had a daughter, Gwendolyn Evelyn (Dicken) Hunt. We find the three of them in the 1930 census living on Maude's parent's farm at Pittsburg and Samsonville Rd., Camp Co., TX. Dewey is employed as a salesman for a lighting plant. In July 1940 Dewey died of TB and acute appendicitis at the Veteran's Administration Facility in Legion, TX where he had been treated for 2 weeks prior to his death. His death certificate shows that he was working in the automobile business and living in Kerrville, Kerr Co., TX before he passed away on 16 July 1940. He is buried at the Legion Memorial Cemetery in Legion, TX. (Sources: family, photo; 1900, 1910, 1930 census; Tx Death Cert; US Veteran Gravesites; his half-brother, John Dicken's, {1878-1953] obituary online.)
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