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Dixie Dowden Tucker

Dixie Dowden Tucker portrayed Nofia in "Searching for Wooden Watermelons," an independent film shot in Southeast Texas. The film, now available on DVD, premiered at the Spindletop/Lamar Univestity film Festival. Currently, Dixie is an adjunct public speaking teacher at Lamar State College, Port Arthur.

Dixie, who was one of four people who created the current drama festival system as it now exist in Texas schools, has been a fixture on the Southeast Texas stage for the past 25 years.

She returned to Texas in 1967 and taught high school speech, English, and theater for 25 years, while directing all theater activities at the school. She married Walter Tucker in 1975 and retired in 1992.

She was born the ninth of 10 children. She moved to Nederland as a child and received a degree in theatre and speech in 1961, from Lamar State College of Technology, now Lamar University. She taught junior high school reading and English for three years in Nederland, before moving to Kansas in 1964, where she taught junior high school speech and directed theater activities for three years. She received a master’s degree in 1965 from Colorado State College. While attending college she appeared as Miriamne in “Winterset” opposite a very young (but no younger than she) Nick Nolte.

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