Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

DIXON

Poindexter

Smith

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE – September 14, 1995

Luther Dixon Jr.

Feb. 9, 1925-Sept. 12, 1995

SOUTH BEND - Luther Dixon Jr., 70, died at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in Meridian Nursing Center-Cardinal after an illness. Mr. Dixon, formerly of East Campeau Street, retired in 1988 from the South Bend schools after 32 years of service as a principal and teacher.

He was born Feb. 9, 1925, in Memphis, Tenn., and had lived in South Bend since 1950. On Dec. 23, 1947, in Hopkinsville, Ky., he married Frances Anne Poindexter. She survives with two daughters, Pamela Dixon of Radcliff, Ky., and Beverly Dixon of South Bend; and a sister, Lynette Smith of Louisville.

He was a graduate of Kentucky State University and New York University. He was boys work director of the former Herring House Community Center; a member of Pilgrim Baptist Church and Kappa Alpha Psi; former board member of Teachers Credit Union; and served on the board of directors of Friends of the Unemployed, Family & Children's Center, and the YMCA.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Pilgrim Baptist Church. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday in Alford's Mortuary.