Renee Dixie Barber

Graveside Services for Renee Dixie Barber will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, June 30, 2025, at Riverside Cemetery in Spencer. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to People for Pets in Spencer. There will be a small luncheon held at the Prime Rib, following the service.

Dixie, the daughter of Loyal (Kelly) O. Randall and Ola G. Mayo Randall, was born on April 23, 1929, in Mason City. She was raised in Joice, graduated from Joice High School in 1947 and shortly thereafter became a telephone operator for Bell Telephone Company.

Dixie was united in marriage on March 5, 1955, to Arnold Eugene Barber in Sioux City. During their journey together they were joined by their two sons: Jon Kelly Barber and Jay Edwin Barber in 1955 and in 1958 and during their marriage they lived in a number of areas around the country during Arnold’s career. These included Mason City; Omaha, Nebraska; Upland, California; Grand Junction, Colorado; Oberlin, Kansas; and Spencer where Arnold joined BASF Corporation as a senior sales representative in 1975. They were married for 43 years until Arnold passed away on Nov. 26, 1998, at the age of 71. She was a member of the Grace United Methodist Church and continued to live in her home in Spencer until she moved to the Ruthven Community Care Center in Ruthven two years ago.

Dixie passed away on Jan. 20, 2025, at the age of 96 at the Ruthven Community Care Center in Ruthven.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Arnold Barber; and her sister, Donna R. Bryant, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

She is survived by her two sons and daughter in-laws, USN Senior Chief (retired) Jay Edwin and Jamie Barber of Cathedral City, California; Jon Kelly and Jutamas Barber of Mukdahan, Thailand; many relatives and friends.