Elaine Dixon - Her Zip Code is a Decimal
Elaine was born in Jonesboro, GA, best known as the home of “Gone with the Wind”. Jonesboro is also the largest town where Elaine has lived! Born the middle child of an older brother and younger sister, Elaine played all sports with her older brother and friends. Her passion was music, and she started piano lessons at age seven. Elaine played basketball in junior high and clarinet in the Jonesboro High School marching band. After graduation in 1979, Elaine worked full time at South Fulton Medical Center in East Point, GA and attended classes at Clayton State University. Elaine has worked on the financial side of healthcare for thirty-eight years and is currently with Navicent Health Baldwin. Elaine is a Revenue Cycle Director responsible for pre-services, registration, business office, coding and health information management. Quite a load if you have ever entered a hospital!
Elaine played softball on various teams for the next fifteen years or so after college in and around Clayton and Fulton Counties until the much younger teammates started bringing out the oxygen tanks when Elaine would run the bases. Elaine and husband Jeff attend the Voice of Truth church in nearby Irwinton, GA (2010 census population 650). Elaine has played piano at several churches over the years, she teaches Sunday School for seven-year age group and currently sings and plays with the Praise Team at the Voice of Trust in Irwinton, GA.
She met her husband Jeff in 2002 riding bicycles across Georgia and began to spend time together other than over the handle bars! They reside in McIntyre, Ga (2010 census 650) on land that has been in the Dixon family for over fifty-five years. Elaine and Jeff now have three children and sixteen grandchildren. Like most old people, they stay busy watching the grandchildren participate in their favorite hobbies. When not running or playing with grandchildren, Elaine enjoys group singing, playing the piano, and gardening.
A late bloomer, Elaine started running at age fifty-three with her first race being the Banana Pudding Festival in Irwinton, GA. She later ran Madison in May on the advice of friends and begin to follow her exploits in the Run and See Georgia Grand Prix, Black Bag Race Series, and Clover Glove Series. Her favorite races are the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds Scare 5K and any event at Rock Eagle. Elaine just completed her second Half Marathon in Athens this October. Elaine reflects that she has “met the greatest people and loves running through Georgia with this group”. She “hopes to run until she is 93.” Her mother has recently made a quilt of Elaine’s running t-shirts that Elaine considers a keepsake. At age 93, that will be a lot more quilts forthcoming!
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