Francis Albert Dix
Francis Albert Dix and Lois (Turner) Dix
(Uncle Buddy aka Uncle Bubba)



Janie Lois Turner

Born  9-22-08.  Died 12-22-45 of  pneumonia, shortly before she died she was getting blankets out of a home made blanket box and the lid fell across her shoulders and I believe it did damage to her lungs and pneumonia set in, she was thin and very frail.



Francis Albert Dix

Born  10-22-1894.  Died 11-19-46, of a lung disorder.  Mustard gas from the first world war is what I have learned even though. He smoked heavily!   Fourteen years difference in their ages.



     
Lois (Turner) Dix 
Born 9-22-08
Died 12-22-45
Married,  June 11, 1932
Capital View Baptist Church, 
515 Manford Rd. S. W. Atlanta, GA.

Buried:
 Forest Grove Cemetery
Forest Park, GA 30297
 
Francis Albert Dix 
Born  10-22-1894 
Died 11-19-46


Their Children and Grandchildren

Frances Lois "Franlo" (Dix) Chapman b. 1/5/1934
m. 6/11/1953 to Charles "Charlie" Luther Chapman, Jr. b. 2/17/1933
Albert Sidney "Bert" Dix
m. Kay Watkins
b. 9/20/1937            
William Earl "Bill" Dix
m. Pat Watkins
b. 5/10/1939                    
     Deborah "Debbie" Yvonne Chapman b. 1/16/1955   

  Craig Fletcher Cook  b. 4/12/1981

            Austin Michael Cook  b. 9/20/2013

            Owen Thomas Cook  b. 7/13/2016

  Christy Mae Cook Cardena b. 3/30/1984; 
  m. 3/15/2014  to  Rene Arturo Cardena b.9/6/1980

       
            Lucas Charles Cardena  b. 12/23/2015
            Leo Vincent Cardena  b. 7/10/2018

   Colin Charles Cook  b. 3/24/1992
   Charles Randall "Randy) Dix 12//?/1961
   m Angela (?) Dix
Tiffany Dix ?  4/12/1982
Cameron Dix
Daughter?

     Pamela (Dix) Black 12/21/1961
     m. 12/10/10 to Mark Black 12/12/??
     Donna Teresa (Chapman) Summer b. 6/4/1957;
     m. 6/6/81 to William Robin Summer.

   Ashley Mae Phillip's b. 6/13/84 
   m.  Shawn Derrick Phillips 1/16/03.
Ethan Chase Phillips 7/15/03,
Gavin Mitchell Phillips 4/20/05,
Alyssa Claire Phillips 11/27/09
    Zachary Albert Summer 12/01/88
    m. 10/10/18 to (Bich Hyun) "Lucy" Kim Summer
     Laurie Dix Rodriguez  b. 10/11/196?
Emilio Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez 12/1988
(Both sons are married)
     Butch Dix b. 2/3/1964 
     m. Tina (Prichard) Dix

Jessica Dix DeBorde b. 1/??/1985
m. Phillip DeBorde


Jordan Dix Thigpen b. 12/??/1988
m. Jacob Thigpen

AidenThigpen
Aubree Thigpen

Alexander Dix
     Charles "Chuck" Luther Chapman, III  b. 4/10/1962

           Cheyenne Alyssa Chapman MacDonald  b. 6/7/1993; 
           m. 8/5/2017 to Jonathan DePro MacDonald  b. 7/1/1993
          
           Caitlin Rae Chapman  b. 5/1/1995
     Robin (Dix) Jenkins  b. 5/4/1956
     m Darrell Jenkins

    
Ann Marie (Dix) Shipp, 6/1970
m 5/30/2015 to Henry Zebulon
 



     Kevin Tarner

     Kris Dix


 
From: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:40:36 EST
 

Francis A. Dix  and Miss Lois Turner of Atlanta, GA.were married on   June 11, 1932, Capital View Baptist Church, located at 515 Manford Rd. S. W. Atlanta, GA.

Francis and Lois first address was 625 Elmwood Dr. N. E.

In a letter they got from Aunt Vermon it was written July 11, 1932 she said that:

"HARD TIMES HAD DRIVEN THE THREE DIX BOYS TO MATRIMONY AND I AM GLAD, FOR I DIDN'T WONT THEM TO BE  SELFISH OLD BACHLORS. MY TWO NEW DAUGHTERS ARE VERY FINE, SO I AM QUITE PROUD OF THE NEW DIXES.
[DO YOU KNOW WHO THE OTHER TWO ARE?]
I HOPE THAT YOU WILL BE AS HAPPY AS UNCLE PAUL AND I THESE THIRTY YEARS. SHE SPEAKS OF GRANDPA NIX."


Francis and Lois at 899 Boulevard N. E.

Frances and Bert were born in  Atlanta, GA in Atlanta hospital.  We moved to Forest Park, go before I started to School.  Bill was born in Forest Park GA.   We lived in two homes there but I dont know the address.  We lived there until our parents died........Frances Albert. Dix    b. 10/22/1894       Janie Lois  b. 9/22/1908
 
 


Granny Dix and Frances Dix, June, 1919


 


photo submitted by Alice Newman Shannon

Kenny Hartley adds:  That 1903 Springfield 30-06 was a massively accurate weapon, still used for snipers. 
From the hat he's wearing it looks like he was in MacArthur's Rainbow division of Southern soldiers.

 


Lois and Francis
December 6, 1931
Photo submitted by Frances Dix Chapman
 


Ruth and Franlo
Photo submitted by Frances Dix Chapman
 


Aunt Ruth bathing baby Franlo
Photo submitted by Frances Dix Chapman
 


Franlo at 14 months
Photo submitted by Frances Dix Chapman


Lois holding Bill, Franlo, Bert with Francis
July 10, 1939
Photo submitted by Frances Dix Chapman
 


Submitted by Ginny Whigham Tucker

Frances, Bill & Bert, about 1940

Frances recalls the death of her parents:


My mother died first in November, 1945. I was 11 years old.

 

My dad died the next Nov.1945 I was  12 years old. I think. My mother's dad lived with us in forest park, GA. That is where my mom, dad, and brother, Bert (Albert Sidney Dix is with my mom and dad.

 

My dad was in World  War I. My aunt Nell had my father's flag on a wall. I don't know what happen to it.

 



Bill writes of his parents:

At the time [my mother died] I was bed ridden with pneumonia and the doctor told "Pa", my grandfather, "If the boy makes it through the night he might live." I did!!!!!!!!  I was bed ridden on the couch in the living room where I could see across the room into a bedroom where my mother was dying, TWO tall black men, in white uniforms came into the house and went into the bedroom where mother was and had two long poles with a sheet connected to both, (stretcher) they covered mothers face and wedged the long poles between the head and foot boards of the bed and loaded mother onto this thing, covered her entirely and carried her from the house, as the wedged these poles between the head and foot they scratched the head board badly, I remember as if yesterday, the next time I saw this bed was when we arrived at Aunt Ruth's house and Uncle Ralph showed me the bed, next to the refridge., and said "This is yours and Bert's bed while you stay with us." The scratches were on the left side of the headboard, Martha said at the reunion that she might have this bed and was going to let me know?

We use to play under Mothers kitchen table with the rounded legs, I understand that you [Russell Dix Whigham] might have this table.

When Mom and Dad died we lived for approximately. one year with my grandfather in a small room rented from a neighbor in Forest Park, GA.   His name was "PA" to all living  beings and most animals!!!!  He was 77 years at the time, later lived with his daughter Aunt Essie until she could not care for him, then placed in nursing home in Atlanta, had his teeth pulled at 95 years and died at 102. Lester Maddox (GOV, Ga.) visited him. 

Frances had been taken to Etta's.
 

Bert and I was ask for by Aunt Eleanor and Reginald, Their daughter Lyn was and still is like a sister.


Lyn Smith and Bill Dix
Photo submitted by Frances Dix Chapman
 
 

Shirley Jeanne, and Charlie Brundage, with Franlo Dix
Photograph submitted by Frances Dix Chapman

Frances married Charlie Chapman on   June 11, 1953, at  Grant Park Bapist Curch, Atlanta, GA.


    


Bert. Frances, & Bill with baby Deborah (1955)