Ruth Lorene Dillon Dickey

Published 6:00 am Monday, January 27, 2003

Services for Ruth Lorene Dillon Dickey of Bogue Chitto are 2p.m., Monday, Jan. 27, at Greenwood Missionary Baptist Church withburial in the church cemetery.

Family hour visitation is today from 5-6 p.m., at Tyler FuneralHome.

Mrs. Dickey, 75, died Jan. 22, 2003, at Mississippi BaptistMedical Center in Jackson. She was born in Lincoln County on Oct.3, 1927, to Felix Dillon and Annie Huff Dillon.

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She was a homemaker. She was a member of Greenwood MissionaryBaptist Church, where she served on the usher board and motherboard.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her brothers, FelioDillon, Fred Dillon and S. Dillon; her sister, Helen Speights; agrandchild; and a great-grandchild.

Survivors are her sons, Archie Dickey Jr., of Milwaukee, Wis.,and Jerry L. Dickey of Brookhaven; her daughters, Mary AliceMiddleton, Thelma Wilbert, Carl Ann Kelly, Dorothy McNickel,Loretta Hughey and Cathy Williams, all of Brookhaven; her sisters,Emma Lou Williams of Brookhaven, and Annie Bell Madison of LosAngeles, Calif.; and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren,nieces and nephews.