Virginia Estelle Seitz Dixon of Hustonville, Kentucky, passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 11, 2022, at The Grandview Nursing & Rehabilitation Facility in Campbellsville. She was 97 years old.

Virginia was born on February 24, 1925, in St. Henry, Ohio, to Clara (Steinbrunner) and John Seitz. She was the 10th of their 11 children. After moving to Dayton, and graduating from Patterson Co-op High School, she was awarded an engineering scholarship to the University of Cincinnati. Instead, she chose to remain at home, to help care for her parents and work at Standard Register, a printing company in Dayton, where she met her beloved husband, John Edward Dixon. They married in 1948 and reared their seven children in Union and Tipp City, Ohio.

Virginia, known as Jinny, was involved in her Catholic parishes wherever she lived. As a member of the Rosary Altar Society and as a teacher and director of religious education, she was devoted to her church and supported it energetically. In 1979, she and John (Eddie) purchased The Blue Bank Farm, where they retired to a life in The Knobs of Casey County, Kentucky. Her most important priority was her family, offering leadership to her many relatives and descendants. Together with her brother, Art, she organized and helped to host numerous family reunions which brought her kinfolk together from all over the country. John’s unexpected death in 1993 left her a widow for 29 years. She continued an active life, traveling, reading, journaling, and sewing. A lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, it was her great joy to watch them win a World Series.

Jinny is survived by her seven children, Joan Wood, Louisville, KY; John (Dana) Dixon, Danville, KY; James (Susan) Dixon, Hustonville, KY; and Jeffrey (Leann) Dixon of Hustonville, KY; Jeanne (Cliff) Hellyer of Danville, KY; Jerome (Janet) Dixon of Campbellsville, KY; and Jay (Glenda) Dixon of Perryville, KY; 19 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren, sister-in-law Dolores Huelsman Seitz, and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, John, her sons-in-law Wayne and Joe, her grandson Bruce, and her ten siblings, Alma (Clarence), Esther (Boozy), Helen (Derby), Curly (Aggie), Pete (Stella), Si (Dolores), Bob (Buff), Luke (Margie), Art, and Jack (Betty).

The funeral Mass will be held at 11am on Friday, December 16, 2022, at Sacred Heart Church (100 S. Wallace Wilkinson Blvd., Liberty, KY). Father George Otuma will officiate. Pallbearers will be her six sons, John, James, Jeffrey, Jerome, and Jay Dixon and Cliff Hellyer.

Burial will follow at the Dixon Family Cemetery at The Blue Bank Farm.

The family will receive friends and family at McKinney-Brown Funeral Home (752 Campbellsville St., Liberty, KY) on Thursday, December 15, from 5 to 7pm.  A rosary prayer service will be held at 6:30pm.

A celebration of Jinny’s life will be held at a family reunion next summer for loved ones who cannot travel at this time.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Sacred Heart Church (C/O Susan Dixon 1200 Blue Bank Road, Hustonville, KY 40437) or the V.E. Dixon Trust / Cemetery Fund (C/O James Dixon 1200 Blue Bank Road, Hustonville, KY 40437).

Funeral arrangements entrusted to McKinney-Brown Funeral Home. Online guestbook available at www.mckinneybrown.com.