Robert Dixon (soldier)

After retiring from I.B.M., Dixon, who was now also remarried, moved his extended family to Albany, New York.^[1] From 1977 to 2013, Dixon worked in the Central Baptist Church in Salt Point, New York, eventually serving as the church's part time pastor for 19 years. As a pastor, he was also active in civic affairs.^[1] He would help create the Community Police Review Board in Albany, serving as its chair from 1984 to 1998.^[1] He also led a commission to build a memorial for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Albany.^[1] From 1998 to 2005, Dixon was president of the Empire Baptist Missionary Convention of New York, an association of Black churches.^[1]

Dixon returned to West Point in 2021 to visit a newly erected Buffalo Soldiers monument later on the open grasslands where the Buffalo Soldiers at the academy had trained future officers.^[1] The area would in 1973 become known as "Buffalo Soldier Field."^[2][1]

By 1977, Dixon was married to Georgia Bryant.^[1] He and Georgia each had children from previous marriages.^[1]

Dixon died at a rehabilitation center located near Albany, New York, on November 15, 2024, at the age of 103.^[1]