Dixie Beatrice Bounds, 87 of Poplar Bluff, Missouri died Aug. 15, 2021 at her residence.
She was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on July 17, 1934 to the late Phillip and Delpha Ballard. She was united in marriage to Leonard Bounds on Feb. 14, 1953. To this union, three sons were born. Leonard preceded her in death in 1975. She later married Harold Pickard and had one son.
Dixie loved God, her family and her church and nobody was a stranger in her eyes.
She loved to sit on her porch in the summer until her health failed and was unable to do so.
Dixie worked many jobs in her lifetime to help support her family, including waitressing and factory work.
She leaves behind two sisters Mary Ballard and Phyllis McLain.
She leaves behind her children: Frank Bounds, Walter Bounds, John Bounds, and James Harlon Pickard, daughter-in-law, Lorinda Pickard.
Grandchildren, David Bounds, Casey Bounds, Weston Bounds, Caliah Pickard, Avia Pickard, Adeline Pickard, , Tanner Bounds, great-grandson, and many other family and friends along with her parents and husband she was preceded in death by four siblings.