The document summarizes the lives and shared service of Danny Altice and Posey Dillon from Rocky Mount, Virginia. Altice was short and drove big machines while Dillon left farming to work in town politics. Though from different backgrounds, they found common ground serving their community through the fire department, with Dillon restoring a historic fire truck. Both men lived simple lives and remained in Rocky Mount for decades.

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In a larger town, the paths of Danny Altice and Posey Dillon may
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never have crossed. In Rocky Mount, their paths intertwined.
Lives of shared service By Matt Chittum and Janelle Rucker | The Roanoke Times
ROCKY MOUNT — Their lives were earned a more than comfortable living with the woman he called his “partner”
just different. with the power company and used his for the last 15 years in a crisply main-
Posey Dillon was tall, an athlete in savvy to navigate the world of small- tained little brick ranch on the north
his youth, outgoing. town politics. side of Rocky Mount.
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Danny Altice was short, and shunned Altice stayed with the trucking busi- Dillon, 59, and his wife of 35 years
William Daniel “Danny” Altice and Posey Dillon ride in a 1929 the ballfield for driving big machines. ness his father started, and lived the lived two miles away on the south side
Seagrave Special. The fire truck, which once belonged to Rocky Dillon left the family tobacco farm simple life of a working man.
Mount, was recovered by Dillon and restored. to make his way in town, where he Divorced twice, he was 67 and lived See LIVES, 6
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entrance. Then the music stops, the lights “We’re just trying to have a good time,” was appointed after Roanoke
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Danny Thomas (right) speaks with his friend Landon Williams outside of “Mr. Omar has the right to
The Roanoke Times 202 Market. Thomas said he doesn’t look to start trouble with anyone. comment — and criticize the
See RULING, 14
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