Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dyke, Isaac E. 1944
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 17 Jan 1944

First Traffic Death in ’44 Is Recorded

Ionia county’s first traffic fatality of the new year was recorded over the
week-end with the death at Blodgett hospital in Grand Rapids of Isaac E. Dyke,
64, Berlin Center resident injured in a peculiar accident on M-66 south of here
on January 4.

Dyke, who was removed to the Grand Rapids hospital shortly after the accident,
died late Saturday as the aftermath of the loss of both his legs, one being
severed near the ankle at the time of the accident, the other amputated above
the knee at the hospital later because of mutilation.

Dyke was struck by a car driven by Marion Thorpe, 20, of Portland near the
county airport as he attempted to wipe frost off the windshield of his
automobile during a heavy pre-dawn fog, sheriff’s officers reported, resulting
in a subsequent pileup of several other cars.

Body Brought Here

Funeral services will be held at the Berlin Center Methodist church Wednesday at
2 o’clock, with interment in Highland Park cemetery.  In the meantime the
remains will repose at the Myers funeral home here and will lie in state at the
church from noon until 2 o’clock Wednesday.

Dyke is survived by his wife, Gladys; two daughters, Mrs. Sheila Reed, of Ionia,
and Patricia Lou, at home; two brothers, Curtis and Frank of Ionia; a sister,
Mrs. Bert Fuller, Hubbardston, and two grandchildren, Sharon and Larry Reed, of
Ionia.

For many years Dyke had been employed in local industries, having been
identified with the Stafford plant the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture company, and at
one time was co-owner of a restaurant here.

He was born near Carson City Feb. 18, 1879, and came to Ionia in 1905


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