KARE11 -- Another Minnesota family is in mourning tonight, after learning their loved one has died in Iraq.

Army Private First Class Robert J. Dixon died Sunday after his humvee hit a roadside bomb.

He leaves behind a wife of just one and a half years and two young boys from a previous marriage.

You can spot the home of Dixon on his Minneapolis block, yellow ribbons are wrapped around the curb-side trees and a flag is waving outside his door.

Dixon's widow needed nothing more than visuals on Sunday to know her husband would never again see those ribbons, "The two uniformed officers walked into the house and I knew, right then, they didn't have to say a word," Rusty Rose-Dixon said Wednesday.

Rusty says her husband, who was called "Bobby," was "strong, charismatic and fun."

"He loved people and he loved adventure and he was good at anything he pretty much immersed himself in," she said.

Rusty says he was especially good at being a soldier. "He was great at it," she said. "And we'd been contemplating our future of his reenlistment and how that was going to impact both of us."

Their future together was the subject of their last conversation. Now, Rusty says, she alone will follow their dreams.

"I'm just going to go and do what he'd wish," she said. "I'm going to continue my career and stay close to family and make connections with people that are close to me and that I love."