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Sharyn Lee Gainor Dixon
Sharyn Lee Gainor Dixon
Waverly, Ohio
Sharyn Lee Gainor Dixon, 85, of Waverly, Ohio, died Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, peacefully in her daughter’s home in Broken Arrow, Okla. Services will be at Catoosa First, Catoosa, Okla.
Sharyn was born Feb. 10, 1938, to Alan F. Gainor (of Daniel Gainor and Julia Lyons of County Cork, Ireland) and Leone Ann Schmidt Gainor (of Gustave Emil August Schmidt and Selma Gehlor of Germany) in Dubuque, Iowa. She had two older brothers, Richard Gainor and Dale Gainor. She attended St. Columbkille Catholic School and graduated from Dubuque Senior High in 1956. She then attended cosmetology school and loved her beautician career for 17 years. She married Donald Lee Dixon of Dubuque in 1966. They moved to Cedar Rapids and had three children: Deidre, Dennis and Donald Jr.
They moved in 1979 to Henryetta, Okla. She returned to college to get her Licensed Practical Nursing degree from OSU Tech in Okmulgee, Okla. She worked in Henryetta Hospital, retiring after 20 years. Her husband died in 1995. She was a member of St. Michael’s Catholic Church until she moved to Ohio in 2007. She attended Waverly First Baptist in Waverly Ohio and the Pike County Senior Center.
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