Retired U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Charles Allen Dixon, 83, passed away peacefully in his sleep Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. He had struggled with metastatic lung cancer for more than a year.
An avid golfer, Mr. Dixon belonged to Brick Landing Golf and Country Club, where he has three holes-in-one plaques on the wall. As a longtime deer hunter, he kept a good supply of venison in the freezer. He hunted with the same longtime friends for over 30 years.
Charles Dixon served in the U.S. Marine Corps with great honor and distinction for 23 years. He was a Vietnam War veteran and retired from DCS, a military contracting firm in Washington, D.C. Mr. Dixon will be cremated and his ashes interred in Arlington National Cemetery next to his first wife and the mother of their three children, Carol A. Dixon.
Surviving are his wife, Mary T. Dixon; sons, Mark Dixon (Sharon) of Gainesville, Virginia, Doug Dixon of Vienna, Virginia, Jeff Coffer, (significant other Bevin Grady) of John’s Creek, Georgia, and Chris Coffer (Valerie) of Carrollton, Georgia; daughter, Debbie Lennox of Springfield, Virginia; sister, Margaret (Sissy) Manzanarez (Kenneth) of St. George, Utah; grandchildren, Lauren Erbe (Jason), Jennifer Emswiler (Joe), Allison Lennox, Megan Lennox, Krisiti Watts (Luke), Amy Dixon, Julia Bedard and Emily Bedard; great-grandchildren, Emily and McKenzie; and one great-grandson on the way.
Services with military honors will be conducted at 11 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 30, at Brunswick Funeral Service, Shallotte.
Memorials may be made to Wounded Warrior Project, 4899 Belfort Road, Suite 300, Jacksonville, FL 32256.
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