Personal Life
On October 5, 1932, Dickey married Violet Arnold, a New York showgirl, at St. Mark’s Church in Jackson Heights, New York. The couple had one child, Lorraine, born in 1935.
Dickey was an excellent quail hunter. He spent part of his retirement in the 1970s and 80s residing in the Yarborough Landing community on the shore of Millwood Lake in Southwestern Arkansas. He died in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1993.
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