Michael Dwayne Dixon

Published 2:44 pm Thursday, December 31, 2015

Funeral service for Michael Dwayne Dixon will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016, Pleasant Hill M. B. Church with the Rev. Joseph Briscoe officiating. Burial will follow at Pleasant Hill Cemetery under the direction of W. H. Jefferson Funeral Home.

Visitation is from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mr. Dixon died Saturday, Dec. 26, 2016, at Merit Health Central Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.  He was 44.

He had worked as a brick mason and was a member of the Pleasant Hill M. B. Church.

He was preceded in death by his father, Josh Leakes; and his mother, Tinnie B. Lacey; his brother, Joseph Leakes; and sister, Amanda Wilson; and stepfather ,William S Lodge.

Survivors include his wife, Willielean Dixon of Vicksburg; five brothers, James Odell Dixon of Chicago, John Van Dixon and Robert Dixon, both of Jackson., and Napoleon Dixon and Frank Andrew Dixon, both of Vicksburg, four sisters, Linda Dixon Brown, Alice  Dixon Daniels, Elizabeth Denise Dixon and Varria Ann Dixon, all of Vicksburg; and nieces, nephews cousins and other aunts and uncles.