Miss Dixie, that's what my class called her even though she had been married, taught most of us in the first grade. She died in May of 1975 just a month before we moved to Clinton. I learned at the funeral home that Mr. Joe and Mrs. Ruth as well as Joe Jr. and his family had recently moved to Clinton also. As a young couple raising a family and working, Carole and I didn't spent as much time with the Deatons as we would have liked, but it was nice having them close by. Miss Dixie and her sons roomed with my grandmother and grandfather after Mr. Deaton's death, and were like a part of the family. I still have a bracelet made from a shell that Mr. Joe send me during WWII.
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