Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Monday, December 31, 2001

Reuben C. Dickerson

DERIDDER -- Funeral services for Reuben C. Dickerson, 70, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1, in Hixson Funeral Home. The Revs. Kirk D. Mayo and David C. Mayo will officiate. Burial will be in Beauregard Cemetery. Visitation is 5-10 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. Tuesday.

Mr. Dickerson died at 12:45 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 30, 2001, in a Lake Charles hospital.

He was a native of New Orleans. He lived in DeRidder for about 26 years. He lived in LaSalle Parish, where he was an owner/manager of grocery stores, for about 25 years. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine [Corps].

Survivors include his wife, Ruth Dupreast Dickerson of DeRidder; three daughters, Janette Rowell of West Monroe, Deborah Mauterer of Pollock and Linda Smeby of Ocean Springs, Miss.; two sisters, Annie Lou White of Humble, Texas, and Nora Manceaux of Vidor, Texas; five grandchildren; and three step great-grandchildren.