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- Bio: Anchorage Daily News October 19, 2006
- Chugiak resident Gladys Lorraine Dixson, 84, died Oct. 13, 2006, at Providence Alaska Medical Center. Visitation was at Chapel by the Sea with a service. Burial followed at Angelus Memorial Park.
- Mrs. Dixson was born Feb. 10, 1922, in Minnesota to Fred and Laura Larson. In 1935, their family traveled to the Matanuska Valley. Mrs. Dixson attended Palmer High School, then worked at the Palmer dormitory and at an Anchorage laundromat. She worked at a Dillingham cafe, where she met her first husband, Stanley Chmiel. They lived in Aleknagik briefly, then returned to Anchorage. In 1950, she and her children moved to Minnesota. She met and married Maurice Dixson, and they moved to Anchorage and had three children. In 1962, they moved to Chugiak. Mrs. Dixson was a homemaker and enjoyed country and gospel music, singing, and dancing with Maurice at Sons of Norway. They grew potatoes on the family farm and sold them year-round. Mrs. Dixson had been a waitress at the Cheechako Club and Bernice's Cafe in Anchorage. She was an Anchorage School District custodian through the 1970s and retired in 1982. Her family wrote: "Mom loved Jesus and rarely missed getting her family to church. She loved Alaska and telling stories of her family's experiences in the early colony days. Mom loved people and was always ready to make a pot of coffee and have a friendly visit. She was devoted to her family and raised six children while caring for aging parents, being chauffeur to many who needed a ride or any other assistance." During later years, she enjoyed going for rides, singing hymns, visiting and playing pinochle. She was preceded in death by her husband, Maurice; son, Donald Chmiel; sister, Alice Dahl; and brothers, Leonard and Laurence Larson.
- Survivors include her sister and brother-in-law, Esther and Lionel Haakenson; son and daughter-in-law, Joe and Patti Chmiel; sons, William Dixson and Richard Dixson; daughters and sons-in-law; Alice and Bud Dial and Ruth and Guy McPherren; 16 grandchildren; many great-grandchildren; and friends, Merice Richner and Irina Shupilova. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Scenic Park Bible Church, 7145 Madelynne Drive, Anchorage 99504; Chapel by the Sea, 14730 Turnagain Bluff Way, Anchorage 99515-4153; or Church in the Wildwood, 16832 Hanson Drive, Eagle River 99577. Arrangements were by Kehl's Forest Lawn Mortuary.
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1922 - 2006 (84 år)
