Howard Dixon
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Howard Lawrence Dixon, Jr., 68, of Thurmont, MD passed away December 23, 2021 at INOVA Fairfax Hospital, in Fairfax, Virginia.
Born May 20, 1953, he was the son of the late Howard L. and Maria Schafer Dixon.
Howard was preceded in death by his parents and his brother Clay Alton Dixon, in 1960 at age 3.
He was of the Christian faith and a Veteran who had served as a SP4 in the US Army.
Howard earned his Civil Engineering degree at the University of Maryland. He worked many jobs and found his calling as a Survey Party Chief in Fairfax County, VA DPW, from which he retired. Genealogy and Disc Golf and Hiking were his favorite past-times; he loved trying to enrich the soil and ensuring the honeybees had enough food. His favorite past-time became playing with the dogs, Java, Ralph and Latte.
He is survived by two Aunts, Betty Jane Dixon Goff of Yellow Spring, MD and Dorothy Thomas of Oakland, MD and his fiance, Catherine Breeden of Charles Town, West Virginia, and many cousins and friends.
Services will be held at 11:00 am on Thursday, January 13, 2022 at Eackles-Spencer & Norton Funeral Home, 256 Halltown Road, Harpers Ferry, WV.
Condolences may be expressed at www.eackles-spencerfuneralhome.com