Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, February 20, 1994 TAG: 9402210267
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: D-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: COLLINSVILLE LENGTH: Medium
OBIT DICKERSON, MARIE ALTHEA HOWERY
DICKERSON, Marie Althea Howery, 88, of Collinsville, formerly of Floyd,
died Saturday, February 19, 1994 at Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and
Henry County. She had been a resident at Martinsville Convalescent Center for
1 1/2 years. She made her home with her daughter in Collinsville for 10 years
prior to this. Born in Floyd County on October 8, 1905, she was a daughter of
the late Ardella Turner Howery Slusher and the late James Rufus Howery. Her
husband Norman Edmund Dickerson died in 1947. She was preceded in death by two
sisters, Evelyn Howery Houchins and Anabel Lasbeth Howery. Surviving are a
daughter and son-in-law, Benita and Maynard Lackey of Collinsville; a
granddaughter and her husband, Jean Marie and Thomas McLean Nelson of
Cincinnati, Ohio; a grandson and wife, Jeffrey Maynard and Charlene Tyree
Lackey of Charlottesville; great-grandson, Alexander Tyree Lackey, also of
Charlottesville; two stepbrothers, Freeman Slusher and George Slusher, both of
Floyd; a stepsister, Dotte Cock of Galax. She was a member of Floyd Baptist
Church and a former Sunday School Teacher. A graduate of Radford College, she
taught in Floyd Public County Schools for 29 years before retiring. Then she
taught in the Adult Education Program for several years. Mrs. Dickerson was a
member of Patrick Henry Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
the Historical Society of Floyd County, the Floyd County Women's Club, the
Floyd County Homemakers, the Retired Teachers Association, the Floyd Rebekah
Lodge of which she served as Nobel Grand, the Friendship Club, the XYZ Club,
the Bassett Senior Citizens and the AARP. Funeral services will be Tuesday 11
a.m. at the Floyd Baptist Church with the Rev. Samuel H. Murphy, Minister of
First Baptist Church of Collinsville, with interment in the Jacksonville
Cemetery, Floyd. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at
Wood Funeral Home, other times at the home of her daughter, 532 Westover
Drive, Collinsville.
by CNB