Dixie L Green

Dixie L Green, age 90, of Salt Lake City, passed peacefully from this life September 13, 2026. Dixie was born March 8,1936 to Forace George and Edna Ina Green.

Music was always a big part of Dixie’s life. She loved to sing. She started singing at a young age with her brother Dee. They also took dance classes together and performed some of their dances and songs. They were both in Opera Workshop at Brigham Young University and sang in some of the same performances. When Linda, her much younger sister, grew up, she and Dixie sang in church and at other events. She learned to play the drums and performed with a band in clubs in Arkansas and Missouri. When she returned to Salt Lake City, in her later years, she joined the Mountain Jubilee Chapter of the Sweet Adelines and added her lovely alto voice and vivacious spirit to the group. Dixie also sang with the First Baptist Church Choir. She never stopped singing. When a stroke limited her ability to communicate, Dixie could still sing many of the songs she loved. She sang with the speech therapist, she sang with a choir at St. Joseph Villa care facility, she sang at her 90th birthday party and nearly to her last breath.

Dixie graduated from BYU with a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology with an emphasis in Bacteriology and a minor in Chemistry. She then served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Central States Mission. Afterwards, she spent most of her working years in Research and Development and Quality Control in different types of laboratories working with a variety of electronic, optical and biological equipment. Her long and varied professional life reflected her intelligence, curiosity, adaptability, and willingness to embrace new challenges.

Her career began in 1960 at St. Mark’s Hospital, where she helped establish its first isotope laboratory under the direction of a physicist and radiologist. She administered radioisotope doses, performed clinical tests, and wrote testing procedures. Her scientific career subsequently included positions with Thiokol, Stanford University Research Institute, the University of Arkansas, Ralston Purina, and Cargill Poultry. Unable to climb the management ladder as a woman in her field, Dixie moved on to receive diplomas in accounting and gemology. This opened up doors in management, purchasing and technical writing that took her to Tennessee, Los Angeles and Albuquerque.

Growing up, Dixie felt that she went through the Scouting program with her brother (they were exactly 15 months apart) and her father that was on the Explorer Committee for the Young Men's General Board of the LDS Church. She traveled along on river trips down the Colorado and attended a National Boy Scout Jamboree. Summers, where her grandfather was a forest ranger along the Wasatch Front, were spent in Millcreek Canyon and at the Boy Scout Camp. After her mother passed in 1985, Dixie moved to Kanab, Utah to be with her father. She joined up with her father who was volunteering for the Utah National Parks Council. Dixie became the Bryce Canyon District Commissioner for a year and then trained adult Explorer leaders for the next 11 years until the program was discontinued. Scouting has been an important part of the family heritage. Two nephews became fourth generation Eagle Scouts and two great nephews became fifth generation Eagle Scouts.

Subsequently, Dixie moved to Salt Lake City. She was working as a financial securities advisor when life came full circle, and she was hired as a Technical Analyst with the International Down & Feather Laboratories. It was the longest job she ever held. The company had offices in Switzerland and China where she was able to travel to both locations. Unfortunately, the company was downsizing in 2016 and she was let go.

During this window before her next job, Dixie took a technical writing class at Salt Lake Community College. She wrote a paper titled “A College Website Named Canvas” that was published in the “Utah’s Emerging Writers, An Anthology” compiled and edited by “Z Publishing House,” 2018. Dixie wrote about the challenges of being in her 80’s while humorously conversing in the world dominated by a webpage named Canvas.

Dixie took every job and every challenge with an extraordinary positive attitude. When faced with cancer, she was “glad” to experience chemotherapy and radiation. When she broke her right wrist roller skating, she had “wanted” to learn to write with her left hand. She was happy to be one of the oldest employees working for Amazon just before her stroke. And despite being unable to talk, write or read, her spirit was infectious to all.

We express our deep appreciation to the entire staff at St. Joseph Villa, especially to the nurses and CNA’s, Recreation Team and all the therapists who cared for Dixie these past five and one-half years. We also express gratitude to Dixie’s nephew, Michael Green-Mills, who has been her main family caregiver and has spent countless hours visiting, giving comfort, taking care of business and medical matters, decorating her room and was with her, holding her hand, at the very end.

Dixie is survived by her sister, Linda Morris (Mel); 10 nieces and nephews, 23 great nieces and nephews and 12 great-great nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother, Dee F. Green (Barbara), one nephew and one great niece.

Please join us for A Celebration of Life for Dixie on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at 2:00 PM in the Sanctuary of St. Joseph Villa, 451 East Bishop Federal Lane, Salt Lake City, Utah.