Mildred M. Dixon

   Mildred M. Dixon, 91, passed away on Friday May 13, 2016 at Job Haines Home in Bloomfield.

    Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Graveside Service at Glendale Cemetery in Bloomfield on Thursday at 12 noon. Please express condolences at www.oboylefuneralhome.com.

   Born and raised in Fairview, NJ, Mildred lived in Bloomfield for 50 years and Verona since 2000. She was a homemaker who also had a cottage craft business.

   During World War II, Mildred supported the war effort by working in a Button Factory in Fairview with her father where they prepared buttons that were used for Military Clothing.

  She enjoyed reading poetry, writing personal poetry and reading her Bible. In addition, she had a passion for completing many beautiful, complicated puzzles. She was a dog lover and very dedicated to her Poodles throughout the years.     Mildred was daughter of the late Stephan and Mary (Gurka) Pavlu; devoted wife of the late Gilbert L. Dixon for 51 years; mother of Deborah Dixon Doebel, mother in-law of Carl Doebel; grandmother of Cory J. Doebel; godmother of Robert Ferraro and the late Anthony Ferraro; sister to Eleanor Pavlu Ferraro and the late Stephanie Palmer, Charles Pavlu and Edward Pavlu.

   For those who wish, in lieu of flowers, donations to Homeside Hospice,

www.homesidehospice.com or to Gideons International Bible Study, www.gideons.org would be appreciated.