Ruth Dixon
Individual
1922 – 2013
Description
Ruth Kenworthy Dixon was a volunteer for more than 60 years for medical, health, and other charitable organizations. Born in Richmond, IN., and raised chiefly in Columbus OH. Dixon came to Grand Rapids - the hometown of her husband Willis L. Dixon (Jr.) (1922-2008) - as a young mother in 1953 after he was discharged from the U.S. Navy. The couple met in 1947 in Philadelphia, where he was a medical student and she was a social worker, and married in 1948. The couple had three children: Mark E. Dixon, Jeffrey E. Dixon and Jane Elizabeth Moore. Beginning in the early 1950s, the chief focus of Dixon's volunteer energies was the Kent County and Michigan chapters of the American Medical Society Auxiliary, an association of doctors' wives that advocated on health-related issues. Dixon also loved fashion, and rarely discarded a garment. Many of her outfits were donated to the Grand Rapids Public Museum among other items. (Obituary, Published in the Grand Rapid Press, Nov 17-Nov 21, 2013)
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