Monday, November 08, 2010


Miss Dixie Leaves Us

Dixie Garrett Kincaid, 93, a retired small business owner from Michigan, died October 28, 2010, of complications from Alzheimer’s. She had lived in Arlington VA since 2004 after residing more than 60 years in Michigan.

The fifth of eight children of Loman Edgar and Losa Vineyard Garrett of Vineyard Ridge, Roane County, WV—Dixie was born January 14, 1917, and was the only surviving member of the Greatest Generation of Garretts. Her two younger brothers, Russell and Loman, also died in 2010. Russell had Alzheimer’s. They were preceded in death by brothers, Garland, Herbert and Richard; and sisters, Lenore and Lucille.

Like her mother, Dixie was diagnosed with late onset Alzheimer’s. Her diagnosis came in 2000, although it is likely that symptoms began at least eight years earlier.

Dixie attended business school in Charleston after graduating from high school in Spencer. Her first job was with Vandale’s Funeral Home, now called Taylor-Vandale, in Spencer. Her husband, L. Hiram, pre-deceased her in 2004 three days after their 65th wedding anniversary.

The Kincaids moved to Michigan in 1944 and in 1949 founded G & K Cleaners in St. Louis MI where they ran the business until the mid 1960s. Survivors include one daughter, Barbara K. Kincaid of Arlington VA with whom she lived, and numerous nieces and nephews in West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, and Colorado.

Funeral services were in West Virginia November 14. The family requests that memorial gifts in lieu of flowers be made to either the Alzheimer’s Family Day Center of Fairfax, VA www.alzheimersfdc.org) or the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, Wellesley Hills, MA (www.curealzfund.org)

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