Dallas Ray Richison
b. 4 August 1884, Jay County, Indiana, to Frank Albert and Sarah Jane (Davis) Richison
d. 13 March 1947, Winchester, Randolph County, Indiana
bur. Fountain Park Cemetery, Winchester, Randolph, Indiana
m. 11 August 1906, Bearcreek Township, Jay County, Indiana
Olive Alexander
b. 10 June 1887, Jay County, Indiana, to Thomas Franklin and Mary Ann (Courtney) Alexander
d. 29 October 1973, Merced, Merced County, California
bur. Fountain Park Cemetery, Winchester, Randolph, Indiana
Dallas Richison and Olive Alexander gravestone
Children of Dallas Ray and Olive (Alexander)Richison:
- Modjeska Pauline (1907-1989) married Milburn Theodore Thornburg
- Ophir Orlo (1909-1949) married Zella Beatrice Wilkerson
- Herbert Meredith (1913-1969) married Alice Louise Richardson
- Charles Allen (1918-1989) married Mildred Miley
- Frank Vaughn (1920-1999) married Edith Catherine Smith
Dallas Ray was a painter and paperhanger in Winchester, Indiana, along with some of his sons at various times. He also had a small farm about five miles northeast of town. He died of injuries suffered during a fall in a stairwell where he was working. According to newspaper articles, he had not been feeling well and apparently had a dizzy spell. He struck his head and back on a banister as he fell and died a few days later.
Olive died in Merced, California where she had been living close to her youngest son, Frank. She was cremated and her ashes were shipped back to Indiana to be buried beside Dallas in November of 1973. A few friends and some of her grandchildren attended that graveside service in Winchester, Indiana.
Submitted by:
Shirley Richison Fields
Avon IN
E-mail: richison@me com