Delia Rightmire Wixom

Delia Rightmire
Photo Credit: Kuppa Studio Edinboro, PA

Delia Rightmire was born in Trumansburg, New York in June 1896 to Olive B. Tucker and John Rightmire.  Delia was trained as a school teacher before her marriage to Elmer B. Wixom.  


The Wixoms moved to West Lafayette, Indiana by the 1930s, and then by 1935 to Fairfield Avenue in Fort Wayne, Indiana. According to the Adeline Cleveland Hosner's journal, The Pioneer Clevelands, the Wixoms had three children, Shirley, Phyllis and Everett.