James "Jim" Edward Dixon

James E. "Jim" Dixon, 67, Atchison, Kansas died Thursday, December 12, 2019 at Hickory Pointe Nursing Home in Oskaloosa, Kansas.

Visitation with the family will be Saturday, December 21 ^st from 2:00 until 4:00 P.M. at the First Christian Church. Memorial contributions are suggested to LEWY BODY Dementia Association or St. Croix Hospice and may be left in care of Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home with whom final care has been entrusted.

Jim was born March 8, 1952 in Denver, Colorado the son of James E. and Gladys Hoover Dixon. He attended schools in Denver, CO and Lenexa, Kansas and Atchison, Kansas where he graduated from Maur Hill Prep School in 1970. He then attended Benedictine College in Atchison and then Park College, Parkville, MO graduating in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in Management/Computer Information Systems (Summa Cum Laude).

He and Mary Johanna Betts were married in January of 1972 and had a daughter, Kimberly Nicole Dixon from this union and later divorced in 1991. He then married long time friend Lynn Stewart on July 24, 2004 in Bendena, Kansas. They enjoyed years of traveling and seeing the country.

Jim served in the United States Air Force from 1970 until his honorable discharge in 1974 as a Sergeant where he served in Guam and Texas.

He then returned to Atchison, Kansas where he was employed at Rockwell International Corporation and then Atchison Casting Corporation beginning in 1974 as an Industrial Engineer and as a Senior Industrial Engineer from 1993 until 1996. In January 1996 he opened Dixon Computer and Business Services in Atchison and retired from this in July 2010.

He was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church and served as member of the choir and choir director for the church. He was a former member of the Knights of Columbus. He also sang for many years with the choir of First Christian Church. Jim and a long time friend, Lois Reid, sang together from 1984 until 2016.

Jim is survived by his wife, Lynn Dixon of the couple's home in Atchison, KS; children, Jennifer (Robert) Knight, Leavenworth, KS; James W. (Melissa) Stewart, Atchison, KS; three sisters, Linda Dixon, Fruita, CO; Rebecca Rhyneer, Milford, OH; and Tonya Monique Bhelke, Grand Junction, CO; twelve grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his father, James E. Dixon in 1953 and his mother, Gladys Hoover Dixon in 2019 and his daughter, Kimberly Nicole Dixon in 2019.