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Candlelight vigil held to remember mother
Submitted by Joe Birch, Anchor
Thursday, November 15th, 2012, 2:09pm
Extended family and friends
gathered to remember Ms. Dixon, the 37-year-old mother who was gunned down at 276 Butler south of downtown Memphis on Nov. 14, 2011.
Diamond Dixon
is one of five of Ms. Dixon’s children.
Friends tacked a new crop of stuffed animals on a utility pole
where weathered ones have hung for a solid year.
Jasmine Dixon
at the vigil.
Nakita Dixon, 21, holds a candle in memory of her mother
on November 14, 2012, the one year anniversary of her death. Nakita now cares for her child and siblings.
They prayed, sang “Amazing Grace”
and cupped their hands around candles near a mostly abandoned and boarded up apartment complex.
Red candle wax
and tiny flames surround picture of the late Tashuner Dixon (left) and a relative at a candlelight vigil on the one year anniversary of Ms. Dixon's death.

 

The five children of the late Tashuner Dixon struggled to keep their candles lit on a cold Memphis night.

They gathered with extended family and friends to remember Ms. Dixon, the 37-year-old mother who was gunned down at 276 Butler south of downtown Memphis on Nov. 14, 2011. Read more in this article. 

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