Flossie M. Dixon

The Dixon family has planned a service of Celebration and Thanksgiving honoring the life of their beloved mother Ms. Flossie Mae Meeks-Dixon, to be held on Saturday, October 18, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. in the sanctuary of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Meeks Settlement in Okolona, Arkansas. Rev. Rufus Hatley, the pastor will preach the celebration message. The committal service and final resting place will be at Pleasant Grove Cemetery adjacent to the church. Those who want to respectively view Mrs. Dixon may do so, on Friday, October 17, 2008 from 2:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. The family will share the Images of Life DVD with those who visit. Mrs. Dixon’s grandsons, and great-grandsons will selectively serve as bearers of the casket and her nephews and great-nephews will serve as honorary bearers of the casket. On February 6, 1909, Alex and Mattie Brooks Meeks celebrated the birth of their 10th child, a baby girl they named Flossie. Flossie M. Meeks was raised and lived in the Meeks Community her entire life. At an early age she accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior. She was a faithful member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church and attended regularly until her health began to fail. Believing God’s word,…..“and the two shall become one flesh…,“ Flossie Meeks became Mrs. Flossie M. Dixon on April 23, 1927, when she married the handsome and charming Agustus Dixon. The Lord blessed their union with 11 beautiful children. Spending quality time with her family was the highlight of her life. Her beauty, her love and her warmth will be deeply missed by all who were fortunate enough to have known her. Due to her declining health she moved into Murfreesboro Nursing Home and later to Golden Living Center in Arkadelphia, where she shared a room with her sister Celestine. Her life was truly Golden. To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the Heaven. On Tuesday, October 14, 2008 in her 99th season she passed from time into eternity. Those awaiting her arrival are: her parents, an infant son, her son Eugene Dixon, her daughters, Earnestine Moss and Florine Fricks; also, her sisters Arizona Grigsby, Estella Leeper, Tessora Norton, Willie Mae Harrington, Fleeta Thomas; her brothers Lee Meeks, Frank Meeks, Emmett Meeks, Olo Meeks and Hurston Meeks. Her life was as the fragrance of a beautiful rose, and her influence will live on in the lives of her sister, Celestine Mitchell of Arkadelphia, AR; her children Bobby G. & his wife, Rene Dixon of Hot Springs, AR; Richard Henry Dixon of Okolona, AR; Johnny & his wife, Louise Dixon of Prescott, AR; Paul & his wife, Diane Dixon of Rockford, IL; Roy Neal & his wife, Betty Dixon of Rockford, IL; Artis Lee & his wife, Phyllis Dixon of Arkadelphia, AR; and Terry Linda & her husband, Dalton Ingram of Rockford, IL; 45 grandchildren, 110 great-grandchildren, 60 great-great grandchildren, 7 great-great-great grandchildren; a brother-in-law Samuel & his wife, Beatrice Dixon of Berkley, CA; and a caravan of nieces, nephews, numerous cousins, friends and the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church family. “Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make thee a ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” Matthew 25:21