MEHERRIN, Sept. 6 – Jewel Newman Dix, 78, of Meherrin, passed away on Friday, September 2, 2011.

She is survived by two children, Susan Brown and husband, Karl and Greg Dix and wife, Ginger; two grandchildren, Andrew Tatum and Tommy Dix all of Meherrin; two sisters, Mary Elder and husband, Carlton and Betty Mull and husband, Lloyd all of Farmville; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Malcolm Dix Jr. and parents, James T. and Alma Jones Newman.

A funeral service was held Monday, September 5 at the Browning-Duffer Funeral Home with interment in the Meherrin Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Meherrin.

The Browning-Duffer Funeral Home, Keysville, was in charge of arrangements.