DIXON, Ila J. Dixon

        Memorial service for Ila Joan Dixon, 76, Lawton, will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Frankye A. Johnson, pastor, officiating. Mrs. Dixon died Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006, at a local hospital. Private family entombment will be at Chapel of Peace Mausoleum at Sunset Memorial Gardens under direction of Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home.
        She was born March 3, 1929, in Kansas City, Mo., to Bobbie and Arnold H. White. She and her parents moved to Lawton from Texas when she was a young girl. She helped her parents with their restaurant business. She graduated from Lawton High School in 1946. She married William Tell "Bill" Dixon on June 8, 1947, at Centenary United Methodist Church. He died April 4, 2005. She attended Cameron College and graduated magna cum laude from Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha. She taught at Eisenhower Junior High School for 26 years. She was a member of First United Methodist Church.
        Survivors include a son, Michael R. Dixon, Lawton; a daughter, Debra J. Hess, Okmulgee; and three grandchildren: Aaron M. Dixon, Beverly Hills, Calif.; Lauren Hess, Boston; and Joan Hess, Tulsa. She was preceded in death by her parents. Memorial contributions may be made to First United Methodist Church, 2602 Ferris, Lawton 73505, or to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th. Oklahoma City 73104