Daniel Dixon

Daniel was born to Vernie and Harvey Dixon in Deer Park, Washington, the second oldest of seven children. He departed this life to be with the Lord on May 19, 2023, at the Rehab cottage in Mena, Arkansas. Daniel was 99 years old. He spent most of his childhood in Washington. At the age of 17 he enlisted into the Army Air Corp. He was a Fighter Pilot during WWII. The Army Corp later became the United States Air Force. Over the course of his military career, he was stationed in Santa Anna Tulane, Concord, and Bakersfield, California; Chandler, Arizona; Hamilton Field, where he went by rail to Newport News, Virginia, and shipped on the Liberty Ship to Algiers, Africa. He spent his 20^th birthday on board. He was then shipped to Foggia, Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. During his career he flew missions to Austria, Czechoslovakia, Southern France, and Romania, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Bad Tolz, Germany. He flew the AT6, AT9, RP322, P38, P39, UC78, P61, AT6, F84, P51, F80, and F86.

After his Air Force career, he joined the National Guard and retired as a Major in 1962. He then purchased a Dude Ranch in Colorado and later sold it and became a carpenter and foreman. He worked as a trail guide for hunters. He loved camping in the open spaces in the Rocky Mountains. He became an architectural draftsman and later received his license as an Architect. He had his own company and later formed a partnership as Dixon/Carter Architects. He had his practice in the Rocky Mountains in Granby, Colorado, until the late 1990’s when he retired. During those years, he and his wife had several horses. Due to health issues at such a high altitude, he and his wife, Renee, with their horses, moved to Tarkington, Texas. At one point they had 12 horses. They later moved to Cove, Arkansas, in 2011 and joined the Cove First Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and six siblings, two wives, two sons-in-law, and a stepson.

He is survived by his wife, Renee, one sister-in-law, Betty Dixon in Washington; a son David, and a daughter-in-law, Glennita in Colorado; daughters, Linda Groom in California, Angela in Colorado, Theresa Mikesell, Texas, a stepdaughter Tammy and husband Ron Uecker in Colorado, four stepsons, Stephen Hedges in Utah, Billy Hedges and wife Tami in Texas, Don Hedges and Julie Petro in North Carolina, and Michael Hedges an wife Amy in Colorado. He and Renee have 15 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and two more expected, and five great-great-grandchildren: several nieces and nephews and their families.

A full military memorial service will be held at Cove First Baptist on June 3^rd, at 1:00 p.m., with interment at Fort Logan Veteran’s Cemetery in Denver, Colorado, at a later date. Cremation services are entrusted to Beasley-Wood Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers you may donate to the Ouachita Humane Society, Mena, Arkansas or the U.S. Veteran’s Hospice, P.O. Box 96229, Washington D.C. 20090-6229

Online obituary and guest book available at www.beasleywoodfuneralhome.com

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