Beckham Co. OK       GLADYS DEMINGO (CHAPMAN) DYKES
                                      
   Posted by Joan (DeFore) Garvey for Elk City Library <Joande4@juno.com>
                                      
                                      
   Elk City Paper, Beckham Co., OK
   
   GLADYS DEMINGO (CHAPMAN) DYKES
   
   Funeral services for Gladys D. DYKES will be conducted at 2:30 p.m.,
   Monday, at the Martin Funeral chapel in Elk City with Rev. Henry
   FLETCHER officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairlawn Cemetery.
   
   Gladys DYKES was born Dec. 25, 1904, in Cumbie, Texas, and died
   Thursday, April 25, at the age of 86. She moved with her family when
   she was a year old, to Duncan, Okla. Her father worked for the
   railroad so the family moved several times. They went to Rogers Mills
   County, settled near the Herring community in 1921. She married John
   Wesley DYKES in Hammon on Oct. 9, 1929. They lived in the Herring
   community until 1947, then moved to Hammon. In 1955, they moved to Elk
   City where they have lived since. She was employed by Armours here in
   Elk City for seven yers(years) and was a member of the United
   Methodist Church.
   
   Survivors include her husband, John Wesley DYKES, of the home; one
   son, Kendred DYKES, and his wife, Karen, of Elk City; and one
   daughter, Mrs. Susie REID and her husband, Darrell, of Canute; one
   brother, John CHAPMAN, of Hamon; three grandchildren, Regina FARNI of
   Canute, Dana BEARD of Elk City, and Kenny Wayne DYKES of Dublin,
   Calif.; three great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her
   parents, two brother and two half-sisters.

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