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Show Death Claims Cleo Dix oi Cedar City; Funeral Services Set for Saturday David Cleo Dix, 57, native of Cedar City and former prominent promi-nent local civic leader, died Monday, Mon-day, May 1, in Salt Lake City following a long illness. The body will be brought to Cedar City for burial, with funeral fun-eral services scheduled for 2:00 p. m. Saturday in the Cedar First Ward Chapel. Friends may call at Zion Mortuary from 7 to 9 p .m. Friday, and from 11 a. m. Saturday until time for the services. ser-vices. Mr. Dix was a member of the news staff of the Utah State University Uni-versity at Logan when he became be-came ilL He had accepted the position as college editor at USU in 1955 after having served as a correspondent and staff writer for the Salt Lake City Tribune since 1938. He had served" as an employee em-ployee at the Cedar City Post Office for 26 years before leaving to make his home in Logan. Mr. Dix was the first president of the Cedar City Junior Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce and the third president of the Utah State Jay-cees. Jay-cees. He also served as president presi-dent of the Cedar City Rotary Club in V'li-55, and was a member mem-ber and past president of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce and the Escalante Knife and Fork Club. He was president of Cedar City's Ci-ty's centennial commission in 1951 and served as first cha'r man of the Cedar City Planning Commission, and later as a member mem-ber of the Board of Adjustment. A past president of the College of Soutnem Utah Alumni Assn., he was a former chairman of the Iron County Red Cross Chapter. He was publicity director for the pageant two years. Also active in the LDS church, Mr. Dix was a counselor in the First LDS Ward Bishopric. Continuing his interest in civic affairs after moving to Logan, he served as chairman of the Town and Gown Dinner Club on the USU campus, was a member and director of Cache Valley Historical Society, a member mem-ber of the board of directors of the Cache Valtey Mental Health Assn., and a member of the Logan Lo-gan Rotary Club. He was born in Cedar City on Oct 26, 1903, a son of David and Ellen Macfarlane Dix. He married mar-ried Fae Decker of Parowan on May 28, 1929 in the St. George LDS Temple. Survivors include his widow, Salt Lake City; a son, David D. Dix, Wellesley Hills, Mass.; a daughter, Mrs. Milton C. (Nancy) Black, Provo; three grandchildren, and brothers and sisters, R- Waldo Dix, Mrs. Alma W. (Gwen) Carter, Mrs. Laurence (Edythe) Lowdcr, all Salt Lake City; LeRoy Dix, Henderson, Nev.; Arthur M. Dix, Lakewood, Calif.; Mrs. DeVon (Dorothy) Green, Mrs. Courtland (Patricia) Nelson, both of Farm-ington, Farm-ington, N. M.; Mrs. Fallas (Ellen) Olofson, Cedar City; Mrs. Clyde L. (Hilda) Anderson, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Corry (Dewey) Olson, Boulder City, Nev.; Mrs. Tom (Louise) Golberg, WooJland, Hills, Calif. I! ' ! ' 1 ' . : ; v, v Zr 'nti D. C. DIX |