Truman Marzett Dickeson
THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. Truman Marzett Dickeson, 73, died Friday, Dec. 17, 1993, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital in Ther-mopolis. Truman was born April 27, 1920, in Daisy, Ark. He attended school in Thermopolis and Casper.
While serving in the U.S. Marine Corps Military Police in Shanghai and Manila, he was captured on Corregidor and survived the Bataan Death March as well as three and half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in Mudgen, Manchuria. On July 14, 1946, he married Do-reen "Dode" Beaver in McKenzie Bridge, Ore. In Thermopolis, he worked at Steward Creamery, the oil field at Hamilton Dome and retired as a rural mail carrier in 1980. He had life memberships in the American Defenders of Corregidor, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2281, Ex P.O.W.'s and was a past member of the Eagles Lodge.
Truman liked the outdoors. He loved God, his family, his country and the U.S. Marine Corps. Above all, he valued his freedom. He is survived by his wife, Dode of Thermopolis; daughters, Loretta Jo Cook of Big Horn and Trudy Lance of Powell; son, Truman Jr.
of Casper; sister, Mildred Snyder of Las Vegas, brother, Haskel Dickeson of Thermopolis; eight grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents. Services will be Monday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church with burial at Riverside Cemetery. Military honors will be conducted by VFW Post 2281.
Mortimore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to the Salvation Army, co John Bury, First National Bank, Thermopolis, Wyo. 82443.
Source: "Obituary for Truman Marzett Dickeson, 1920-1993 (Aged 73)" Newspapers.com, The Billings Gazette, December 18, 1993, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-billings-gazette-obituary-for-truman/101550439/
THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. Truman Marzett Dickeson, 73, died Friday, Dec. 17, 1993, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital in Ther-mopolis. Truman was born April 27, 1920, in Daisy, Ark. He attended school in Thermopolis and Casper.
While serving in the U.S. Marine Corps Military Police in Shanghai and Manila, he was captured on Corregidor and survived the Bataan Death March as well as three and half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in Mudgen, Manchuria. On July 14, 1946, he married Do-reen "Dode" Beaver in McKenzie Bridge, Ore. In Thermopolis, he worked at Steward Creamery, the oil field at Hamilton Dome and retired as a rural mail carrier in 1980. He had life memberships in the American Defenders of Corregidor, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2281, Ex P.O.W.'s and was a past member of the Eagles Lodge.
Truman liked the outdoors. He loved God, his family, his country and the U.S. Marine Corps. Above all, he valued his freedom. He is survived by his wife, Dode of Thermopolis; daughters, Loretta Jo Cook of Big Horn and Trudy Lance of Powell; son, Truman Jr.
of Casper; sister, Mildred Snyder of Las Vegas, brother, Haskel Dickeson of Thermopolis; eight grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents. Services will be Monday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church with burial at Riverside Cemetery. Military honors will be conducted by VFW Post 2281.
Mortimore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to the Salvation Army, co John Bury, First National Bank, Thermopolis, Wyo. 82443.
Source: "Obituary for Truman Marzett Dickeson, 1920-1993 (Aged 73)" Newspapers.com, The Billings Gazette, December 18, 1993, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-billings-gazette-obituary-for-truman/101550439/
Truman Marzett Dickeson
THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. Truman Marzett Dickeson, 73, died Friday, Dec. 17, 1993, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital in Ther-mopolis. Truman was born April 27, 1920, in Daisy, Ark. He attended school in Thermopolis and Casper.
While serving in the U.S. Marine Corps Military Police in Shanghai and Manila, he was captured on Corregidor and survived the Bataan Death March as well as three and half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in Mudgen, Manchuria. On July 14, 1946, he married Do-reen "Dode" Beaver in McKenzie Bridge, Ore. In Thermopolis, he worked at Steward Creamery, the oil field at Hamilton Dome and retired as a rural mail carrier in 1980. He had life memberships in the American Defenders of Corregidor, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2281, Ex P.O.W.'s and was a past member of the Eagles Lodge.
Truman liked the outdoors. He loved God, his family, his country and the U.S. Marine Corps. Above all, he valued his freedom. He is survived by his wife, Dode of Thermopolis; daughters, Loretta Jo Cook of Big Horn and Trudy Lance of Powell; son, Truman Jr.
of Casper; sister, Mildred Snyder of Las Vegas, brother, Haskel Dickeson of Thermopolis; eight grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents. Services will be Monday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church with burial at Riverside Cemetery. Military honors will be conducted by VFW Post 2281.
Mortimore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to the Salvation Army, co John Bury, First National Bank, Thermopolis, Wyo. 82443.
Source: "Obituary for Truman Marzett Dickeson, 1920-1993 (Aged 73)" Newspapers.com, The Billings Gazette, December 18, 1993, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-billings-gazette-obituary-for-truman/101550439/
THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. Truman Marzett Dickeson, 73, died Friday, Dec. 17, 1993, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital in Ther-mopolis. Truman was born April 27, 1920, in Daisy, Ark. He attended school in Thermopolis and Casper.
While serving in the U.S. Marine Corps Military Police in Shanghai and Manila, he was captured on Corregidor and survived the Bataan Death March as well as three and half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in Mudgen, Manchuria. On July 14, 1946, he married Do-reen "Dode" Beaver in McKenzie Bridge, Ore. In Thermopolis, he worked at Steward Creamery, the oil field at Hamilton Dome and retired as a rural mail carrier in 1980. He had life memberships in the American Defenders of Corregidor, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2281, Ex P.O.W.'s and was a past member of the Eagles Lodge.
Truman liked the outdoors. He loved God, his family, his country and the U.S. Marine Corps. Above all, he valued his freedom. He is survived by his wife, Dode of Thermopolis; daughters, Loretta Jo Cook of Big Horn and Trudy Lance of Powell; son, Truman Jr.
of Casper; sister, Mildred Snyder of Las Vegas, brother, Haskel Dickeson of Thermopolis; eight grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents. Services will be Monday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church with burial at Riverside Cemetery. Military honors will be conducted by VFW Post 2281.
Mortimore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to the Salvation Army, co John Bury, First National Bank, Thermopolis, Wyo. 82443.
Source: "Obituary for Truman Marzett Dickeson, 1920-1993 (Aged 73)" Newspapers.com, The Billings Gazette, December 18, 1993, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-billings-gazette-obituary-for-truman/101550439/
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