by Archana Subramaniam by CNB
Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: SUNDAY, February 21, 1993 TAG: 9302220279 SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
OBIT DICKINSON, DR. CLARA RANGELEY KING
DICKINSON, Dr. Clara Rangeley King, 96, of Roanoke, died February 18, 1993 at her home after a short illness. She was born in Newport, the daughter of Fannie Price and John Cephas King M.D. She was educated in Marion Schools and graduated from Marion College and attended Westhampton College before matriculating at the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1923. Dr. Dickinson worked in Marion at the old Homeland Hospital and later at Southwestern State Hospital, where her father had been superintendent. In 1954 she moved to Radford to work with her brother at St. Albans Sanatorium and in local clinics. She and Burt Lincoln Dickinson were married in 1924. He was a lawyer in Marion, Mayor for many years and served as Chairman of the Smyth County School Board. Mr. Dickinson died in 1961. She leaves her daughter and son-in-law, Frances and Dr. William Ackerly of Cambridge, Mass. and her son and daughter-in-law, John and Jo Dickinson, Worthington, Ohio; grandchildren, Lisa Giany, Victoria Dickinson, Spafford, John, David and his wife Anne, and Susan Ackerly; two great-grandchildren, her brother, Dr. James P. King, Radford and many nieces and nephews. A graveside service for family and friends will be at the Round Hill Cemetery in Marion on Saturday February 27, 11:30 a.m. For her Roanoke friends there will be a memorial service at the Residents Center Chapel at Friendship Manor on February 28, at 2:00 p.m. The Rev. Dr. Denver J. Davis will officiate. In lieu of flowers, donations may be given to the local libraries for books in memory of Dr. Dickinson.