Earl W. Dickinson

      BRIGHTON - Earl W. Dickinson, 92, formerly of Brighton died Friday, June 15, 2007 in Parkview Manor in Wayland, where he had lived since April 2006.

      Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 19 in Cottonwood United Methodist Church near Wayland with Dr. Curtis Lamansky and the Rev. Robert Patton officiating. Burial will be in Cottonwood Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday in Gould Funeral Home in Brighton. Memorials may be made to the Brighton Lions Club.

      Mr. Dickinson was born on Aug. 21, 1914 on the home farm east of Brighton, the son of Scott and Mabel (Hyde) Dickinson. He married Ruth Eva Davison on Jan. 9, 1936. She died in November 1981.

      He grew up in the Brighton area and attended Riverside Country School and Brighton High School. He farmed all of his life, sold MFA Insurance and Nature's Fertilizer for many years. He was a member of the Cottonwood United Methodist Church, was active in the Brighton Chamber of Commerce, Toastmasters of Washington and Brighton Lions Club. He was an active outdoorsman and conservationist who raised quail and pheasant for release.