Funeral Services for Dixie Craft Griffin will be held 11:00 AM Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at the Grace Fellowship Church in Lampasas with Minister Reid Schaub officiating. Interment will follow in the Oak Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends 6:00 – 8:00 PM Tuesday at the Sneed Funeral Chapel. She passed away Sunday, August 04, 2013.
Dixie Lynn was born May 27, 1933 to Lynn Irskin and Nona Mae Duke Craft. She was born and also died on her familes ranch near the Rumley Community in Lampasas County. Her family was one of the early settlers in the county in the middle 1800’s. Having been born with God’s Gift of music she started singing as a small child. Living in the country she would ride her bicycle to take piano lessons. Her early years were spent in a one room school house and she was a 1951 graduate of Lampasas High School. After graduation she attended Jackson Business College and then went to work for the First National Bank. During her working career she also worked at Ft. Hood, the Lampasas ISD, Lampasas Cattle Auction and her last employment was with Briggs-Gamel Funeral Home for over 20 years. Dixie’s love for music, especially gospel music was a way she shared God’s love everywhere she could. She played for several churches and was the organist at the Adamsville Baptist Church for 20 years. Over the years she played and sang for numerous funerals, weddings, singings and volunteered many years playing for the patients in local nursing homes. Dixie was a lifetime member of the Methodist Church and on July 31, 1951, she married Ed Griffin in Lampasas where they raised their family.
She is survived by her husband of 62 years Ed Griffin of Lampasas; three children Connie Johle and husband Tim of Lampasas, Tracy Irvin and husband Andrew of Lampasas, and David Duke Griffin of Brownwood, Texas; five grandchildren Larry Brookreson and wife Sophie, Kristy Morua and husband Eric and Layton, Logan and Landon Irvin; by three great grandchildren Blakeli and Dax Brookreson and Kaiser Morua. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers Teddie Craft who was killed in action during WW II and Coyne Craft.
Friends are invited to sign the guestbook at www.heartlandfuneralhome.net
Arrangements are under the direction of David Duke Griffin of Heartland Funeral Home in Early, Texas and Sneed Funeral Chapel in Lampasas.