NAME
Billie Bixler
DATE OF BIRTH
August 17, 1927
DATE OF DEATH
May 2, 2020
AGE AT DEATH
92
OCCUPATION
Illinois Bell Operator and Supervisor, Teacher
CITY OF RESIDENCE AT DEATH
Sherman
STATE/TERRITORY OF RESIDENCE AT DEATH
IL
LOCATION OF GRAVE
Saint Charles Cemetery, South Township, IA
Billie Bixler: The life of the party. Life with Billie (Brooks) Bixler was a wild ride and Toni Carter was on a few of them...Carter said her mother, Margaret Jackson, Bixler’s sister, was the first African American hired by Illinois Bell. Soon, Jackson got her sister on at the phone company as an operator. Bixler didn’t sit still in retirement. She went to MacMurray College, got her teaching degree and taught in District 186...(Click the information source link below to read more.)
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