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John D. Dix, a lifelong newspaperman and combat veteran of the Vietnam War, died Dec. 8 at the Veterans Community Living Center at Fitzsimons in Aurora, Colorado.

In failing health for several years, Dix died of cardiac arrest. He was 75.

Memorial services are scheduled Dec. 28 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch. Military burial will be at Fort Logan.

John Dix was born Jan. 6, 1943 in Oakland, California. He was raised in Berkeley where he attended public schools and then attended the University of California’s Berkeley campus for two years.

But newspapers would become decisive factors in charting the course of Dix’s life, both in and out of the newsroom. As a fifth grader in elementary school, Dix got permission from his teacher to start a class newspaper. The school paper grew the next year, and Dix was on the student staffs that produced campus papers at junior and senior high schools.

Dix got his first paying newspaper job in 1962 when he entered the business at the very bottom of the game, copy boy at $54 a week at the Oakland Tribune. He rose rapidly in the Tribune newsroom as a copy editor, make-up editor, and wire editor.

But his commitment to the job got him in hot water with the Navy where he was in the reserves, his wife, Connie Dix, of Littleton, said. “He missed a reserve meeting when he chose to stay at the newspaper to work on an important story, and the Navy sent his name to the Selective Service branch in Berkeley. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1965,” she said.

Within a year Dix was headed to South Vietnam where he was in charge of a field artillery gun. He served there through 1966 and returned to the newspaper in Oakland in 1967.

He was the Tribune Sunday news editor when the Los Angeles Times called asking him to try out for a job there. He got the job in 1971 and stayed at The Times for 27 years, working almost all of that time as West Coast editor of the L.A. Times – Washington Post News Service.

“John was particularly proud of being part of the Times news team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for coverage of the Rodney King riots,” Mrs. Dix said. “And in his role as the Times-Post News Service editor in California, he also took pride in successfully distributing coverage of the 1984 Olympic Summer games in L.A. to newspapers around the world.”

Dix would leave The Times in 1998 and embark on long over-due world travels, but not before he had a partner. He discovered Connie Holt on Great Expectations, an early way to meet people on the Internet.

“It was expensive, a couple thousand dollars, so people you ’d run into on this site were pretty serious,” Mrs. Dix said. “We talked on the phone a little bit, met a week or two later, and found we had so much in common there was an instant connection. One night soon after we met we were in the kitchen, his or mine I don’t remember, and he asked me to marry him. He flung me around the kitchen. I was shocked. I said yes.”

They were married in 1996. Dix left The Times two years later, and the couple spent the better part of a year traveling, first to Australia where John had relatives and then Ireland and around the USA.

“That was a nice time,” Mrs. Dix recalled. “But there’s an old saying about newspaper people: ‘You can take the reporter or editor out of the newsroom, but you can’t take the newsroom out of the reporter or editor.’ John found a job, sports editor, at The Union Leader in New Hampshire, and after several years headed back to California and Palm Springs as an editor at the Desert Sun.”

That would be the end of John’s newspaper career after he suffered a ripped mitral valve in his heart in 2004. After his recovery, Dix retired and he and Connie moved to Littleton, Colorado to be near children from Connie’s former marriage and where they established the family home and became active in Abiding Hope Lutheran Church (John was a Lutheran) and St. Andrew United Methodist (Connie is a Methodist).

“We were both strong in our religions, and at our wedding we each had our pastors perform the ceremony. But John eventually became a Methodist.”

In addition to travel, Dix liked to go to the theater, garden, read history, and occasionally drag out old recordings of Winston Churchill’s speeches for inspiration. He loved classical music and in high school played the violin in addition to the trombone. He liked to remind people that he played the trombone in the Berkeley High band when it performed at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. He was a cat person, and there were three in the house, Sky, Pasha, and Poppi. He was a member of the Enclave Neighbor Men’s Group and the board of directors of the VA in Denver. For many years, he also was a committed runner.

Dix suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from his war experience in Vietnam and was involved in PTSD group therapy programs in recent years at the Denver VA.

“Some members of the group were Vietnam War-era veterans like John, and some were young veterans of the current wars we are in now. Some were homeless. But they all suffered from this PTSD. John felt comfortable with them,” Mrs. Dix said.

In addition to his wife, Dix is survived by his brother, Chapman (Kay) Dix and sister, Cathy Mires, sister in law Janet Harris (Brian Harris), nieces Cynthia Porter and Karyn Dix, all of Oregon; a son and daughter, Tracy Stuth, Littleton, and Jeff Holt, Burbank, CA; cousins, Doug Ramseyer, Texas, and Maryanne Metz, Delaware; five grandchildren, Kevin Stuth, Katie Soiland, Steve Stuth, Randi Holt and Helen Holt; a great-grandson, Oren Daniel Stuth, and numerous nieces and nephews in Australia.

Services are scheduled Dec. 28, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch, CO, Pastor Andy Dunning officiating. Pallbearers include Rusty Fowler, Brian Harris, Kevin Stuth, Steve Stuth, Gene Tobey, and Ken Wilson.

A light lunch will follow.

Military service and burial are scheduled at 1 p.m. at Fort Logan.

The family encourages contributions to St. Andrew United Methodist or performing a simple memorial act of kindness to a stranger.

For more information, contact Connie Dix, 720-339-4324

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