Danny Wayne Dickson

Funeral services for Danny Wayne Dickson will be held at 11:00 am, Monday, September 2, 2024, in the Chapel of McWhorter Funeral Home with Brother Ralph Johnston officiating. Interment to follow at Enon Cemetery. The family will receive friends at 10:00 am, prior to the service. Danny Wayne Dickson, born in Texarkana, Arkansas on July 20, 1943, is now resting in the sweet arms of Jesus on August 30, 2024. He is preceded in death by his father, David Etheridge; mother, Linny Dickson; sisters, Adele, Esther, & Lorraine; and brothers, Willy & Winfield. Survived by wife Paula Dickson; brothers, George & Kelly; sisters, Corrine & Jessie; blessed with 7 children, Tina and Rodney Fausett, Susie White, Becky and Steve Barnes, Johnny and Amy Dickson, Donna Jo and Wade Willoughby, Travis and Dey Dickson, and Zach and Karina Dickson; 20 grandchildren, Brandi, Britni, Lindsey, Trey, Erica, Johnathon, Jennifer, Kaden, Hayleigh, Jake, Cabe, Jeb, Grant, Gracie Jo, Kaylee, Abigail, Luke, Noah, Zaylee, and Kyleigh; and 20 great-grandchildren. Daddy’s gift of building homes touched so many lives and gave his children & grandchildren an opportunity to load up in his truck with the windows down, country music blasting loud, dashboard filled with tools, supply list written on a 2X4, peanuts in our Dr. Pepper, Pig Skins, and knowing that we were about to willingly work our butts off for Wayne Dickson. Daddy expected it to be done right the first time or rip it out and do it again, and this lesson still lives on in each of us today. He could see what he wanted to build in his head and would draw it in the sand or on a napkin and argue with the educated engineers when they got it wrong and, in the end, - he would get it right. Early in life he built Steak & Eggs across the country, about 30 Catfish Kings (with a month turnaround time), several Jefferson Bed & Breakfasts, and even on a more personal note our log house in Diana, remodeled their home on Mimosa in Ore City, and likely his favorite builds were Johnny’s & Travis’s dream homes. He remodeled more than can be remembered. Daddy left a legacy of “working with your hands and providing quality work.” Daddy loved to fish the Sulphur River and camp out at Black Point and enjoyed running trotlines with his boys and setting up 2 sawhorses with a piece of plywood to build a makeshift fish frying station. Daddy made the most delicious fish and hot water hush puppies that were sometimes substituted with David Beard’s “Commissary” hush puppies. Daddy’s favorite thing later in his in his life was to be PePaw, PaPa, Poppy and spend time with his grand babies and spoiling them with the “full” candy bowl, a bucket of Blue Bell while feeding them in his lap, cooking a big spread of food that was always his best batch yet that would cover the table, teaching them how to cook, garden, raise chickens & pigs, taking them for rides on the lawn mower and tractor, loading them up for a trip to Daddy T’s and Walmart for a treat and a toy. He couldn’t wait for them to come and stay all night with him and didn’t want them to leave. Go rest high on that mountain, Daddy, your work on earth is done. Please visit Wayne’s online registration book at www.mcwhorterfh.com to leave a memory for the family.

Danny Wayne Dickson

July 20, 1943 - August 30, 2024