Wayne Dickson was born on Aug. 6, 1949 in zeary, OK, and passed away in Shawnee, OK on Nov. 1, 2024, at the age of 75. He was a resident of Tecumseh, OK since 1979. He grew up in Greenfield, OK where he worked on the family farm. He started driving a tractor at the age of nine and helped raise mainly cotton and wheat crops in addition to helping run the Grade A dairy cattle operation. He graduated in the Greenfield High School Class of 1967. He married Terri Burnett in 1973 and they had twin sons, Christopher Wayne and Nathan Wayne. Wayne then moved to Oklahoma City and worked as a welder, machinist and a CNC programmer. In 1976 he began working as a draftsman and then a designer of stationary shot blast machinery. In 1981 he and his wife formed Dickson Industries, Inc. and began designing and manufacturing the first self propelled, diesel powered mobile steel shot blast equipment. Wayne went on to invent many types of machinery utilized for grooving, grinding, milling and profiling highway and bridge deck surfaces as well as equipment to cut Rumble Strips on the shoulders of highways. Wayne held 23 Patents.
He is preceded in death by his father, Jack T. Dickson, Grandparents Ernest and Ressie Dickson, Eugene and Elizabeth Hofmann and Father and Mother-in-Law Ernest and Joyce Burnett.
He is survived by his wife, Terri, Son and Daughter-in-Law Christopher and April Dickson, son Nathan Dickson, Grandsons Parker (Jamie), Dylan, Graham and Maddox, Great-Grandson Lincoln Dickson, Mother Irene, Sisters Norma, Carol (Tony), and Connie, as well as many nieces, nephews and extended family.
Wayne had chosen to be cremated. There will be no funeral service, just our many memories of a unique man who wanted to live to be 100 but only made it to 75.
