Rocky Mountain News
March 5, 1994
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 BEATRICE VIOLA DIXON, 74, of Greeley died Feb. 17. Services were Feb. 18 at Elmwood Cemetery. Mrs. Dixon was born Dec. 22, 1919, in Perkins, Okla. She was a technical illustrator for McDonnell Douglas. Survivors include two daughters, Shirley Mangum of Greeley and Judith Brown of Cypress, Calif.; a son, Michael of Nampa, Idaho; her mother, Freda Dixon of Brighton; three sisters, Alveta Sanders and Virginia DeSantis, both of Brighton, and Joan Sutherlin of Las Vegas, Nev.; 11 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.