My Super Model

03-11-2009
I just found out Aunt Lois has passed away in Dublin, Ohio at the age of 99.
About a year ago I took a 16 hour ride to Ohio to take (Aunt) Lois Dixon back home from a visit to relatives here in Nahunta. She was really my great uncles aunt so I guess she was an aunt somewhere down the line. It was a ride of a lifetime as this lady at the time was 98 years young and full of one-liners. She called me her “famous photographer” and I called her my “super model.” Her and deceased husband Joe Dixon (who at one time was the mayor of Dublin) finished second place on America’s Funniest Home Videos many years ago and just recently she was featured on the cover of a book written by Bud Hearn from Sea Island, rightfully named “Mama Didn’t Raise No Fool.”
She was a quick witted lady and when I asked her to pose for me in an old bonnet, granny dress and corn husk broom she was more than willing to oblige. Aunt Lois was honored in Dublin at the 2008 St. Patrick Days Parade as the Grand Leprachan and told me after our ride to Ohio that I should consider myself lucky. Not everyone gets to spend 16 hours in the back seat with a Super Model plus stay at her home for three days afterwards. She enjoyed life and said when she hit the century mark they were going to shut down part of Dublin with her birthday party. I don’t doubt her one bit and she will be dearly missed.