Kathryn Virginia Dickson Dean

Services for Kathryn Virginia Dickson Dean, 104, of Kilgore will be held on Saturday, March 12, 2022, at the First Presbyterian Church in Kilgore at ten o’clock in the morning with Reverend Will Wilson officiating. Burial will follow at Danville Cemetery in Kilgore. The family will be receiving friends at Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore on Friday, March 11, 2022 from five until six o’clock in the evening.

Kathryn was born to Star and Maria Dickson in Kilgore, Texas, on October 24, 1917. She grew up on the family farm in the Danville Community on the outskirts of Kilgore, along with her three siblings, and graduated from Longview High School.
In 1934 she married John Randolph Dean, a dashing young engineering graduate of Texas A&M College (now University.) His job with Magnolia Pipeline (later Mobil Oil) took them to several towns around Texas. When World War II broke out, John was called to active duty with the US Army’s Signal Corps and sent to the Pacific theater. Kathryn and their son Don returned to Kilgore to live with her parents for the duration of war. When John retired from Mobil, they returned to Kilgore to live in 1974. John died in 1998.

Kathryn’s hobbies included china painting, sewing for herself and her granddaughters, oil painting, and quilting. In each community where they lived, she focused on home, family, and her church. In Kilgore she was a member of the Samuel Paul Dinkins Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a life-long member of First Presbyterian Church. In 2015 she was presented an Honorary Life Membership in Presbyterian Women.

Kathryn is survived by two sons and their wives: Don and Paula Dean of Houston, and Joe and Dana Dean of Kilgore; two granddaughters, Susan Fennema and husband Craig of McKinney and Linda Shotton and husband Jamie of Denver, CO; two great-grandchildren, Katherine Marie Shotton and Jacob Dean Shotton, both of Denver.

She is survived by her sister, Louise Dickson Sims, formerly of Tulsa, OK, but now living in Atlanta near her son Alan. Her two brothers, James Edward Dickson, and Wilson Mitchell Dickson are deceased. She is also survived by nine nieces and nephews and five cousins.

She will be buried beside her husband in the Danville Cemetery.