Jack Leon Dickison, 89, died Feb. 13, 2021 at Celeste Care of Horseshoe Bay.
Graveside services were postponed due to winter weather and are scheduled to be at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lampasas on Feb. 21 at 3 p.m. Sneed Funeral Chapel has charge of arrangements.
Dickison was born Oct. 6, 1931 at home in Cherokee to James William Dickison and Iva Means Dickison. He was the sixth of seven children.
He attended his first three years of school at the Colony in San Saba County before transferring into San Saba, where he completed high school in 1951. He began working for the Texas Department of Transportation.
On Dec. 9, 1951, he married Gladys Jane Felts. They spent the next 63 years as a team, building a life together. First, they moved to Huntsville and began attending Sam Houston State University, where Jack earned his bachelor’s degree in agricultural science in 1956 and a master’s in agricultural science in 1958.
He started his teaching career in 1956 in Star. He moved to Lampasas in the fall of 1959 to teach seventh-grade science, which he taught for the next 34 years before retiring.
Dickison was a stockman, always having cows for calf production and at various times raising sheep and even a few hogs.
He was devoted to God and his family.
Dickison was preceded in death by his wife; son, Joel David Dickison; son-in-law, Jay Laminack; and five siblings, J.W., Forrest, Eloise, Marie and Henry.
Survivors include his sibling Lovell Wright; son, James R. (Elizabeth) Dickison; daughter, Shele Laminack; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
