Funeral services for Burkie Dix, age 83 of Lemmon, will be 1:00pm Tuesday, May 29, at Spencer Memorial Presbyterian Church in Lemmon. Florence Hoff, CLP will officiate with burial in Greenhill Cemetery.

Special music will be provided by Dorothy Dayton, organist, and grandson Kyle Dix, soloist.

Serving as casketbearers are grandchildren Marla Miller, Carla Rownd, Ryan Johnson, David Dix, Michael Dix, and Kyle Dix.

A memorial has been established.

BURKIE RAY DIX, JR. was born June 18, 1923 at Thunder Hawk, SD to Burkie Jacob Dix and Della (Fish) Dix. He grew up on the Dix homestead 12 miles southwest of Keldron. Burkie attended White Deer country school and graduated from McIntosh High School in 1942. He farmed and ranched with his parents and worked on area threshing crews during the harvest season. He was united in marriage to Jeanette Macheel on June 18, 1948 at Lidgerwood, ND. They began their life together on the Feyreison place that Burkie purchased prior to their marriage. They lived there for 10 years and then moved to the Dix homestead where they continued farming and ranching. In 1985, they retired and moved into Lemmon. In July of 2003, Burkie entered Five Counties Nursing Home and has resided there since.

He passed from this life on Friday, May 25, at the West River Regional Medical Center in Hettinger.

Burkie was instrumental in the building of Hope Presbyterian Church of rural Keldron where he taught Sunday School and was an Elder. Later he served as both an Elder and Deacon at Spencer. He was also active on the Rolling Green Township Board and a 4-H Leader. In his earlier years, he was active in high school football, enjoyed playing baseball with the Thunder Hawk team and playing softball with the ABS Bulls team well into his mid 50's. Burkie was an avid St. Louis Cardinal's baseball fan, but often settled for watching the Minnesota Twins. He also enjoyed hunting and fishing as well as the sport of boxing. He enjoyed playing cards, socializing, and could quickly strike up a conversation with anyone.

Surviving family members include his wife, Jeanette, Lemmon, SD; 1 daughter, Sandra Johnson, Detroit Lakes, MN; 3 sons and daughters-in-law, Dennis and Jan Dix, Cheyenne, WY; Roger and Cindy Dix, Keldron, SD; Darryl and Jean Dix, Lemmon, SD; 7 grandchildren, Carla and her husband Scot Rownd, Marla and her husband Julius Miller, Ryan Johnson, Kendra and her husband Dean Risinger, Kyle Dix, David Dix and his wife Belinda, Michael Dix; 3 great grandchildren, Christopher Kuntz, Justin and Nadine Miller; 4 step grandchildren, Nick Timm and his wife Sarah; Alan, David, and Julie Timm; 2 sisters and 2 brothers-in-law, Violet and Lawrence Jensen, Sioux Falls, SD; Eileen Smith, Bowman, ND; William "Bill" Macheel, Hettinger, ND.

He was preceded in death by his parents, 1 son Russell in 1988; 1 brother, Willard; 2 sisters, Hyacinth Dietterle and Lyla Macheel.

A family memorial service will be held on June 16th prior to a Dix family reunion.