Roll Call Tribute

Published in Houston Chronicle on June 25, 2017

Weston Dickerson(1922 - 2017)
Weston Albert "Jack" Dickerson, Jr.
1922-2017
Weston Albert "Jack" Dickerson, Jr., 95, of Houston, passed away peacefully at 10:34am on the day of his birth, June 9th, 2017, at the Memorial Hermann Hospice Center in Houston, Texas, with his loving wife of 70 years, Frances and both of his children, daughter Susan Dickerson Redding and son Ty Dickerson, at his side.
Son of Weston "Papa Dick" and Agnes "Mama Dick" Dickerson, Jack was a loving and devoted husband and father. He was a graduate of Lamar High School, class of 1939. He attended Texas A&M University from 1940-42 and graduated from the University of Houston in 1943. He worked at Hughes Oil Tool as an accountant for 39 years until his retirement in 1982.
His hobbies included golf, bowling, square dancing, and gardening. Jack was an avid sports fan and especially enjoyed baseball, golf and college football. A long time member of Seventh Church of Christ, Scientist in Houston, where he served as an usher for many years, Jack was a man of great emotional strength, faith and virtue, who also loved a good joke well told…particularly those involving several clergymen in a lifeboat, or a foul-mouthed parrot in a freezer.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brother Joe. C. Dickerson.
Also surviving are his grandchildren Lauren Redding Miller and husband Colby Miller, Ryan Redding, Lyn Dickerson, Jackie Redding and Ryleigh Dickerson, great-grandchildren Weston Miller and Nora Miller, Susan's husband David Redding, nephews Bert Dickerson and Bob Bellard, and Ty's partner Leigh Taylor.
Memorial services will be held at 11:00am on July 3rd, 2017 in the Chapel at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Houston, with reception to follow in the Hines Baker Room, and interment at the St. Luke's Memorial Garden. Reverend Thomas Harper will officiate.