Ethel Josephine Dickey, 75, a longtime resident of Osawatomie, died Friday, June 28, 1991, at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.

Jo, as she was more commonly known, was born July 28, 1915, in Normandy, Tenn., the oldest of eight children of Joseph Alexander and Minnie Ethel Morrow Cortner. The family moved to Osawatomie when she was a small child. She grew up there and graduated from the Osawatomie High School in the Class of 1933.

She was married in Paola on March 12, 1938, to Carl Dickey, Jr. They made their home in Paola for a year and then moved to Osawatomie.

Mrs. Dickey worked as a nurse at the Osawtomie State Hospital for five years. She then worked at the Wayne Fixley Insurance Agency in the 1950's and 1960's for 10 years She retired in 1970 after her first heart attack.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Osawatomie, the Mera Sunday School Class, church choir and was president of the American Baptist Women of Osawatomie. She was a member of Delta Epsilon Sorority, Harmony Extension Homemakers Unit, the Silverlink Ladies Auxiliary of the United Transportation Union and the National Association of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees Unit 142.

She was a former member of the Amazing Grace Choir and a former member of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Her parents, a brother and a sister preceded her in death.

Those surviving are her husband, Carl Dickey of the home; two sons, Larry Gene Dickey of Osawatomie, and Clifford Lynn Dckey of Lenexa; a daughter Phyllis Josephine Pitko of Eureka, Kan.; two brothers, Charles Cortner of Osawatomie, and Marley Cortner of Sunnyvale, Calif.; thre sisters, Mary Ricketts and Dorothy Heckart, both of Osawatomie, and Rita Faye Hayden of Enid, Okla.; and eight grandchildren.

The services were at 11 a.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church in Osawatomie. The Rev. Curtis Roesch officiated. Music was provided by Hazel Wilhoite, accompanied on the organ by Rosalie Bowker. The selections included "How Great Thou Art," "The Tennessee Waltz" and "Beyond the Sunset."

Tributes were made by Rose Marie Barden from the Mera Class and from her sister, Mrs. Hayden.

The burial was in the Osawatomie Cemetery. Serving as the pallbearers were Steve Ricketts, Stan Ricketts, Dan Peterson, Jim Cortner, Mike Lombard and Tom DelaCruz.

Memorials have been estalished to the church.