Beckham Co. OK                  JOHN WESLEY DYKES
                                      
   Posted by Joan (DeFore) Garvey for Elk City Library <Joande4@juno.com>
                                      
                                      
   Elk City Paper, Beckham Co., OK June 13, 1999
   
   JOHN WESLEY DYKES
   
   Funeral services for John Wesley DYKES will be conducted Monday at
   10:30 a.m. from the Martin Funeral home with Rev. Henry FLETCHER
   officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairlawn Cemetery under the
   directions of the Martin Funeral Home of Elk City.
   
   John Wesley was born April 19, 1906 in Hammon to Newt and Almeda
   (THOMAS) DYKES and died Friday at the age of 98. He was raised in the
   Hammon and Herring Communities. He married Gladys Demingo CHAPMAN on
   October 9, 1929. They made their home in the Hammon area until 1955
   when they moved to Elk City where he has lived since. He spent most of
   his life in the construction business.
   
   He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, two brothers, four
   sisters, and one grandson.
   
   Survivors include two children, Susie REID and her husband, Darrell
   and Kendred DYKES and his wife Karen all of Elk City; one sister,
   Odessa BENN of Elk City; two grandchildren; four great-grandchildren;
   and one great-great grandchild.
   
   Note: son of Jasper NEWTON and Almedia Bozan (THOMAS) b. 1906 d. 1999
   age 93 years old
   
   Note: Odessa BENN died 27 Jan 1999 and is buried at Red Hill, Hamond,
   OK, Roger Mills Co.

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