Kenneth L. Dixon
| Kenneth Lee "Ken" Dixon | |
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| Born |
April 3, 1915 Colchester, McDonough County Illinois, USA |
| Died | June 29, 1986 (aged 71) Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Colchester, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Journalist affiliated with seven newspapers, including the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate |
| Spouse(s) | Ola Maye Montgomery Dixon (1914-1978) (m. 1938–78), originally from Hobbs, New Mexico |
| Children | No children |
| Parent(s) | Roy Lee and Martha R. Mourning Dixon |
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Dixon was also a World War II correspondent in the North Africa, European, and theaters, who flew on twenty-five combat air missions.
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Kenneth Lee "Ken" Dixon (April 3, 1915 - June 29, 1986), was a prominent journalist who reported, edited, and penned columns for seven newspapers, including two in Louisiana -- Lake Charles and Baton Rouge. He was a war correspondent during World War II.
Dixon was born in McDonough County, Illinois, near the small town of Colchester to Roy Lee Dixon and the former Martha R. Mourning. He was educated in public schools and then obtained a two-year professional teaching diploma from Western Illinois University (then Western Illinois State Teacher's College) in Macomb, also located in McDonough County. He taught in rural schools for a time but then launched a newspaper career that began with the Macomb Daily Journal, where he was a reporter from 1934-1936. He was thereafter a reporter for the Canton Daily Ledger in Canton (Fulton County), Illinois.
Between 1936 and 1942, he went west and was an editor for the Hobbs Daily News in Hobbs in Lea County in eastern New Mexico and the Carlsbad Current Argus in Carlsbad in Eddy County, New Mexico.
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