Winifred Powers Dixon

Winifred Powers Dixon died on Saturday, August 10, 2024, at Paradise Creek Retirement Living. She was born August 22, 1928, to Ralph S and Kathleen Austin Powers in Portland, Oregon. She lived and went to school in Multnomah, Oregon until her high school years when she went to the old Lincoln High School. After graduating from high school in 1946, she went to Oregon State College and lived her first year at Waldo Hall. She pledged and was a member of Delta Zeta and lived in the Chi chapter house on the campus.

She was married to John E. Dixon, her college sweetheart, on June 18, 1948, in Multnomah Community Church where she was a member. They lived in Corvallis, Oregon where John was a student and Winifred worked at the Oregon Forestry Product Laboratory as a bookkeeper. Their first child, Jeffery Alan Dixon was born on February 6, 1951, in Corvallis.

They sold the house they built in Corvallis and moved to Fort Collins, Colorado where John accepted an instructor’s position at Colorado A & M. Their daughter, Pauline E. Dixon was born November 7, 1953, in Fort Collins. They moved to Moscow, Idaho in 1954 where John accepted a position in the Agricultural Engineering Department at the University of Idaho. Winifred was a home mother active with Sunday School, PTA, homeroom mother, and Camp Fire. When the children were in elementary school, she finished her B.S. degree in education and completed coursework for a master's in media. She taught eighth grade at Moscow Junior High. She lived in India in 1967/69 while her husband was serving as an advisor at Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University. The second year she taught American Dependents for the Kansas State team and others in Hyderabad, India.

Back in Moscow, she was a librarian for Potlatch High School and then accepted a position at the University of Idaho Library. When she retired from there in 1990, she went with her husband to Njoro, Kenya for one year. She has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and Asia. In China, she gave seminars on library procedures. Genealogy became an obsession and she loved discovering cousins she didn’t know she had. She taught genealogical classes for Life-on-Wheels, Lewis & Clark continuing education, and local societies. She enjoyed her bridge groups and called them her “therapy sessions”, reading and gardening were important to her. She is a past president of the League of Women Voters.

She is survived by Her children, Jeff Dixon and Pauline Martin with her husband Roger. Her Grand Children, Tracy (Dixon) Masseur, Jennie Martin, and Katie Martin. Her Great-grandchildren, Gracie and Sawyer Martin, Alison and Hannah Masseur.

In lieu of flowers, she requests memorial be given in her name to the Martin Institute for Peace or the Vandal Scholarship Endowment.

Cremation has taken place and she will be buried in the Moscow Cemetery with her husband, John.