Parents: Oliver and Daisy Dixon
Splitting his childhood between a rural farm life in Louisiana and the bustling urban setting of Houston, TX, before joining the then still segregated U.S. Army in 1947. Serving in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and at posts in Germany, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Japan, and Washington as a combat engineer, Claude rose to the rank of Command Sergeant Major before retiring from service in 1974. He briefly worked as a security guard at Colorado College before starting a second career with the U.S. Postal Service in 1977 and retired from work life altogether in 1992. He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Folena Maxine Dixon in 2002 and by his daughter Claudia Dixon in 1974. He is survived by his children, his grand children, great grandchildren, his sister and a brother.
He loved to fish, pulling many all-nighters at both Pueblo and Brush Hollow reservoirs patiently waiting to hook channel catfish. He had a green thumb and loved working in his yard growing everything from roses and strawberries to various leafy greens. But what he loved most was spending time in his home surrounded by family or shooting the breeze with dear friends. All who knew him remember him for his kindness, warmth, and quiet strength that always seemed to make everything alright.
Splitting his childhood between a rural farm life in Louisiana and the bustling urban setting of Houston, TX, before joining the then still segregated U.S. Army in 1947. Serving in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and at posts in Germany, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Japan, and Washington as a combat engineer, Claude rose to the rank of Command Sergeant Major before retiring from service in 1974. He briefly worked as a security guard at Colorado College before starting a second career with the U.S. Postal Service in 1977 and retired from work life altogether in 1992. He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Folena Maxine Dixon in 2002 and by his daughter Claudia Dixon in 1974. He is survived by his children, his grand children, great grandchildren, his sister and a brother.
He loved to fish, pulling many all-nighters at both Pueblo and Brush Hollow reservoirs patiently waiting to hook channel catfish. He had a green thumb and loved working in his yard growing everything from roses and strawberries to various leafy greens. But what he loved most was spending time in his home surrounded by family or shooting the breeze with dear friends. All who knew him remember him for his kindness, warmth, and quiet strength that always seemed to make everything alright.
Parents: Oliver and Daisy Dixon
Splitting his childhood between a rural farm life in Louisiana and the bustling urban setting of Houston, TX, before joining the then still segregated U.S. Army in 1947. Serving in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and at posts in Germany, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Japan, and Washington as a combat engineer, Claude rose to the rank of Command Sergeant Major before retiring from service in 1974. He briefly worked as a security guard at Colorado College before starting a second career with the U.S. Postal Service in 1977 and retired from work life altogether in 1992. He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Folena Maxine Dixon in 2002 and by his daughter Claudia Dixon in 1974. He is survived by his children, his grand children, great grandchildren, his sister and a brother.
He loved to fish, pulling many all-nighters at both Pueblo and Brush Hollow reservoirs patiently waiting to hook channel catfish. He had a green thumb and loved working in his yard growing everything from roses and strawberries to various leafy greens. But what he loved most was spending time in his home surrounded by family or shooting the breeze with dear friends. All who knew him remember him for his kindness, warmth, and quiet strength that always seemed to make everything alright.
Splitting his childhood between a rural farm life in Louisiana and the bustling urban setting of Houston, TX, before joining the then still segregated U.S. Army in 1947. Serving in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and at posts in Germany, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Japan, and Washington as a combat engineer, Claude rose to the rank of Command Sergeant Major before retiring from service in 1974. He briefly worked as a security guard at Colorado College before starting a second career with the U.S. Postal Service in 1977 and retired from work life altogether in 1992. He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Folena Maxine Dixon in 2002 and by his daughter Claudia Dixon in 1974. He is survived by his children, his grand children, great grandchildren, his sister and a brother.
He loved to fish, pulling many all-nighters at both Pueblo and Brush Hollow reservoirs patiently waiting to hook channel catfish. He had a green thumb and loved working in his yard growing everything from roses and strawberries to various leafy greens. But what he loved most was spending time in his home surrounded by family or shooting the breeze with dear friends. All who knew him remember him for his kindness, warmth, and quiet strength that always seemed to make everything alright.
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Interred: Nov 26, 2021
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