Personal Life
Dixon and his wife Marge had two children; Pamela and Greg.
Dixon suffered his first heart attack in 1970, shortly after his son Greg was killed in a car accident. On the heels of his son's death, a grieving Dixon had to be helped on stage to do his show one day.
Complications later led to a ruptured aneurysm, which claimed Dixon's life on December 28, 1974. Avco executives concluded that Dixon could not be replaced, so following a month of reruns, The Paul Dixon Show quietly ended its near-20 year run by the end of January 1975. Dixon is buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
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