Virginia Jo Dickeson, 83, of Greenville passed away on December 2, 2009 at her home.
Services will be at 2:00 PM Saturday at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel with J. D. Reynolds and Rev. Jimmy Dunn officiating. Interment will follow at Shady Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Friday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Dickeson was born on September 14, 1926 in Hunt County to Monroe F. and Fannie T. Henshaw Gray. On December 30, 1950, she married Oscar Dickeson in Arkansas.
She was a homemaker and a member of Old Union Missionary Baptist Church.
Her survivors include her husband of Greenville; sons Mike Gray and wife Juanell of Greenville, David Dickeson of Greenville; and Roger Dickeson and wife Lisa of Mt. Pleasant; daughters Virginia Hunter of Rockwall, Sandy Baxter and husband Jerry of Greenville, and Diana Davis and husband Phillip of Kingston; twelve grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Her parents; brothers and sisters Norman Gray, Howard Gray, Tommie Gray, Evelyn Dawson, and Juanita Ketner; and son-in-law Alvin Hunter preceded her in death.
Pallbearers will be Doug Gray, Donald Hunter, Wesley Dickeson, Brian Dickeson, Dale McDaniel, and Aaron Cook.