Robert Douglas Dickerson, Sr.

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Memorial services for Sergeant First Class Robert (Bob) Douglas Dickerson, Sr., 76, of

Fox, will be held on Thursday, October 19, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., at Alexander Gray Funeral

Home Chapel in Healdton with Danny Huntsman officiating. Services will be under the care and

direction of Alexander Gray Funeral Home & Crematory.

Bob was born on January 22, 1947, in Monahans, Texas. He passed from this life on

Monday, October 16, 2023. He was raised in Shelter Island, New York. Bob graduated from Fox

High School with the Class of 1965. He and the former Diana Kay Stewart were united in

marriage on September 20, 1969, in Fox. They recently celebrated 54 wonderful years of

marriage. To this union they were blessed with two sons, Robert (Bobby) Douglas Dickerson, Jr.

and Chad Erin Dickerson.

After graduating from high school, Bob was drafted into the United States Army where

he served from August of 1966 until his discharge in October of 1968. During this time, he

proudly served his country in Vietnam. In February of 2003, he was deployed to Iraq where he

served another tour of duty and returned home in March of 2004. He retired from the United

States Army in January of 2007. He also worked in tire building, retiring after 30 years.

His hobbies included talking around the world with his Ham Radio by which he was self

taught, camping at the lake, attending his sons’ football and baseball games most of the time with

a video camera in his hands, working around the house on his tractor, golfing, telling all kinds of

stories to anyone who would listen, and spending time with his grandsons taking them on all

sorts of adventures.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Gardner Lewis “Tink” Dickerson and Peggy

June Fore Dickerson; father-in-law and mother-in-law, Joe and Jurlie Stewart; brothers-in-law,

Harley Stewart, Jerry Hudgens, Robert Stewart and Jim Rapier; and sister-in-law, Jeannette

Stewart.

Pop, as he was affectionately known by his precious grandsons, is survived by his wife,

Diana Dickerson of the home; sons, Bobby Dickerson and wife, Cindy of Fox and Chad

Dickerson and Sonya Price of Lone Grove; sisters, Yvonne Purcell and husband, Joe of Shelter

Island, New York and Deborah Benedict and husband, Bob of Norwich, New York; sisters-in-

law, Barbara Hudgens of Healdton, and Patricia Stewart and Debbie Rapier, both of Ringling;

grandsons Paxton Dickerson and Dane Dickerson; numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces,

great-nephews and a host of other family and friends.

The family would like to extend its love and gratitude to the staff of the Ardmore

Veterans Center for the wonderful love and care given to Pop.