Angela Ruth Dickey 1939-2024

Angela Ruth Dickey was born in Rusk on Jan. 8, 1939 to Edwin and Margaret Dickey. She went to be with the Lord on Jan. 4, 2024.  

Angela’s career as a county extension agent in home economics spanned 34 years in Angelina, Van Zandt, Morris, Lamar and Wood Counties. It was never a job for her, she loved sharing her knowledge of the culinary arts and sewing with the adults and children in the Northeast Texas area. She was devoted to the children and young adults involved with 4-H, spending countless hours working with them to develop their cooking and sewing skills. This devotion spilled over into her family life through her nephew, nieces and great-nephew and nieces. Each of them has a cherished memory of a cooking or sewing camp at her house each summer.

She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Janie Barber; and brother-in-law, Joe Drewry.

Left to cherish her memory are her sisters, Sarah Drewry and Dixie Acker and husband Donald, all of Rusk; nephew, Joey Acker and wife Becky of Diboll; nieces, Collie Hagen and husband James Allen of Clear Lake Shores, Leigh Yancey and husband David of Troup and Cindy Moake of Rusk; and several great-nephews and great-nieces. 

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to American Cancer Society or the Rusk Library.

There will be a private family memorial at a later date.