Bernice was born in Thomas County, Ga, on a farm between Thomasville and Ochlocknee, Ga. She was the first of five children of Charles Luther Palmer, Jr. and Rossie Elizabeth Carter Palmer. Her childhood was filled with poverty and hard work.
Her family moved to Charleston, SC when she was in her mid teens. She dropped out of school in the seventh grade and lied about her age to get a job in a cigar factory so she could help support her mother and her two brothers.
She married Joseph Turner Dixon in 1939 and they had three children. In 1946 they moved back to Thomasville, where she owned her own restaurant (The Dixie Diner)on Madison Street. After moving back to Charleston in 1951 she worked as head hostess at the Jack Tar Francis Marion hotel's Sugar and Spice room. She ran a boarding house for Trailways bus Drivers for several years and then owned the Camp Road Flower Nursery until shortly before her death,
Because of the poverty that she grew up in she was frugal with her money and spent little on herself, but she was always quick to give money and assistance to everyone who needed it.
When it came to flowers and animals, she had magic in her hands. People that knew her joked that she could plant a broomstick and make it grow. Animals seemed to know that she was a friend. She even had a little frog in her garden that would come to her when she called it.
She fought two battles with cancer and won both times, but the extreme chemo and radiation damaged her stomach and other soft tissue organs. The radiation damage and lung damage from smoking eventually took her life
Her family moved to Charleston, SC when she was in her mid teens. She dropped out of school in the seventh grade and lied about her age to get a job in a cigar factory so she could help support her mother and her two brothers.
She married Joseph Turner Dixon in 1939 and they had three children. In 1946 they moved back to Thomasville, where she owned her own restaurant (The Dixie Diner)on Madison Street. After moving back to Charleston in 1951 she worked as head hostess at the Jack Tar Francis Marion hotel's Sugar and Spice room. She ran a boarding house for Trailways bus Drivers for several years and then owned the Camp Road Flower Nursery until shortly before her death,
Because of the poverty that she grew up in she was frugal with her money and spent little on herself, but she was always quick to give money and assistance to everyone who needed it.
When it came to flowers and animals, she had magic in her hands. People that knew her joked that she could plant a broomstick and make it grow. Animals seemed to know that she was a friend. She even had a little frog in her garden that would come to her when she called it.
She fought two battles with cancer and won both times, but the extreme chemo and radiation damaged her stomach and other soft tissue organs. The radiation damage and lung damage from smoking eventually took her life
Bernice was born in Thomas County, Ga, on a farm between Thomasville and Ochlocknee, Ga. She was the first of five children of Charles Luther Palmer, Jr. and Rossie Elizabeth Carter Palmer. Her childhood was filled with poverty and hard work.
Her family moved to Charleston, SC when she was in her mid teens. She dropped out of school in the seventh grade and lied about her age to get a job in a cigar factory so she could help support her mother and her two brothers.
She married Joseph Turner Dixon in 1939 and they had three children. In 1946 they moved back to Thomasville, where she owned her own restaurant (The Dixie Diner)on Madison Street. After moving back to Charleston in 1951 she worked as head hostess at the Jack Tar Francis Marion hotel's Sugar and Spice room. She ran a boarding house for Trailways bus Drivers for several years and then owned the Camp Road Flower Nursery until shortly before her death,
Because of the poverty that she grew up in she was frugal with her money and spent little on herself, but she was always quick to give money and assistance to everyone who needed it.
When it came to flowers and animals, she had magic in her hands. People that knew her joked that she could plant a broomstick and make it grow. Animals seemed to know that she was a friend. She even had a little frog in her garden that would come to her when she called it.
She fought two battles with cancer and won both times, but the extreme chemo and radiation damaged her stomach and other soft tissue organs. The radiation damage and lung damage from smoking eventually took her life
Her family moved to Charleston, SC when she was in her mid teens. She dropped out of school in the seventh grade and lied about her age to get a job in a cigar factory so she could help support her mother and her two brothers.
She married Joseph Turner Dixon in 1939 and they had three children. In 1946 they moved back to Thomasville, where she owned her own restaurant (The Dixie Diner)on Madison Street. After moving back to Charleston in 1951 she worked as head hostess at the Jack Tar Francis Marion hotel's Sugar and Spice room. She ran a boarding house for Trailways bus Drivers for several years and then owned the Camp Road Flower Nursery until shortly before her death,
Because of the poverty that she grew up in she was frugal with her money and spent little on herself, but she was always quick to give money and assistance to everyone who needed it.
When it came to flowers and animals, she had magic in her hands. People that knew her joked that she could plant a broomstick and make it grow. Animals seemed to know that she was a friend. She even had a little frog in her garden that would come to her when she called it.
She fought two battles with cancer and won both times, but the extreme chemo and radiation damaged her stomach and other soft tissue organs. The radiation damage and lung damage from smoking eventually took her life
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