Services for Dallas Bixler to Be Tuesday

Memorial services for former Olympic gold medalist Dallas Bixler will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Anaheim.

Bixler, 80, died of natural causes at a rest home in Buena Park Monday.

Bixler, who won the gold medal on the horizontal bar in the 1932 Games in Los Angeles, was the oldest surviving gold medalist in the United States. Bixler had taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

He is survived by his wife, Virginia; his brothers, Howard and John; his sister, Helen Severin, and his children, Gail Nikkleson, Dale Bixler and Sally Grove.

A eulogy will be delivered by U.S. Olympic chaplain Russ Hodges.