Mabel Lois Dickerson

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San Augustine Tribune
Thursday, September 17, 2009. Page 10

Mabel Lois Birdwell

Funeral services for Mabel Lois Birdwell, 71, of San Augustine, will be held at 2:00 p.m. today, September 17, 2009 at Wyman Roberts Memorial Chapel in San Augustine. Burial will follow at LIttle Flock Cemetery in San Augustine County with Bro. Burl McBride and Bro. Leo Wright officiating. She died September 14, 2009 in Lufkin.

Mabel Lois Birdwell was born in San Augustine County on April 3, 1938 (sic) to Joseph Aaron Dickerson and Mittie Lorena Norwood. She was a homemaker for her own home and was a member of the Macune Missionary Baptist Church.

She is survived by her husband, Tex Birdwell of San Augustine County; daughter, Sherry McDaniel and husband Greg of Carthage; sons, Rusty Birdwell and Todd Birdwell and wife Amy, all of San Augustine County; six grandchildren and two great-great granchildren; sister Mary Lou Alford and husband Charles of San Augustine.

Condolences may be offered or online obituary viewed. Wyman Roberts Funeral Home in San Augustine was in charge of arrangements.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemroe Strong)

A similar obituary was published in the Sabine County Reporter dated September 21, 2009, listing her grandchildren by name as Beth McDaniel, Jennifer Holt, Jessica Runnels and her husband, Stoney, Matt Birdwell, Megan Birdwell,and Hope Birdwell, and great-granchildren, Stormy Cheyenne Runnels and Trenton Jackson Runnels.

Family/Spouse: Tex Centinual Birdwell, Sr.. Tex (son of Samuel Henry Birdwell, Sr and Clarice Crocker) was born on 25 Mar 1936 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas; died on 18 May 2021 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Little Flock Baptist Church Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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3. William Todd Birdwell was born on 3 Oct 1968 in Jefferson County, Texas; died on 18 Oct 2020 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Little Flock Baptist Church Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas.

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The Sabine County Reporter
February 1, 1995, Page 10

Joe Dickerson

Funeral services for Joe Aaron Dickerson, 84, of San Augustine were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 4, 1995, at Wyman Roberts Funeral Chapel in San Augustine. Masonic graveside rites followed at Liberty Hill Memorial Gardens under the auspices of Redland Masonic Lodge #3.

He died Monday, Jan. 2, 1995.

Dickerson was a lifelong resident of San Augustine County and a member of the Redland Masonic Lodge #3 in San Augustine. He had formerly served as a district clerk for San Augustine County and an inspector with the Texas Railroad Commission.

Survivors: daughters, Mabel Birdwell of Carthage and Mary Lou Alford and Jody Shutter, both of San Augustine; 14 grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Mittie "Lena" Dickerson, in 1994, and a son, Marvin Dickerson, in 1990.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, March 2009)

Joe married Mittie Lorena "Lena" Norwood. Mittie was born on 25 Nov 1917 in San Augustine County, Texas; died on 17 Nov 1994 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; was buried on 19 Nov 1994 in Liberty Hill Cemetery, Bland Lake, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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M. "Lena" Dickerson

Funeral services for Mittie "Lena" Dickerson, 76, of San Augustine were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, 1994, at the Wyman Roberts Funeral Chapel in San Augustine. Interment was at LIberty Hill Memorial Gardens.

She died Thursday, Nov. 17, at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston.

Mrs. Dickerson was a native and longtime resident of San Augustine County. She was a self-employed upholsterer.

Survivors: her husband, Joe Dickerson of San Augustine; four daughters, Mabel Birdwell of Carthage, Barbara Dickerson, Mary Lou Alford, and Jody Shutter; both of San Augustine; two brothers, R. C. Norwood of San Augustine and Naaman Parker of Beaumont; 14 grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren.

Published in The San Augustine Tribune, December 7, 1994, Page 12