Beckham County, OK - Obits: Dicie Kees, 1920
27 August 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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KEES, DICIE
(10 Jun 1920, Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Roger Mills Co, OK):
Dicie Thomas Kees was born in Virginia, June 10, 1890, died in Amarillo,
Texas, June 2, 1920, at the age of 29 years, 11 months and 24 days.  The
deceased had been in poor health for the past four years and gradually
grew worse until after an operation in which a pus formation was removed
from her lungs she passed away in an Amarillo hospital.
Dicie Thomas was married to Homer Keas (sic) in February 1915.  To this
union was born one child, who at the age of four survives her mother.
Dicie Thomas was the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Thomas and
from early childhood up until the time of her marriage resided with her
parents near Durham in this county.  After her marriage she made her home
in Pampa, Texas.  She had a wide range of acquaintances and friends in
this county who will be grieved to hear of her untimely death.
Dicie was a woman who had winning ways and she was truly loved by all who
knew her.  She was a strong christian character and ever stood for those
higher principles and ideals of life.  Until the time her health began to
decline she devoted herself to the care of an invalid mother.  So devoted
was she to her mother that she gave up ambition to receive a higher
education rather than to leave her mother.  Truly she was one of those
rare jewels who completely give up self in the thought of others.
She has passed away but in her passing she leaves a life filled with good
deeds and although her friends and relatives are grieved that she should
so soon be taken from this life her memory will be a sweet recollection of
loving kindnesses, sacrifices and a strong devotion to the principles of
christianity.
In early childhood the writer became a playmate of the deceased and as
time went on claimed her as her truest friends.  She extends words of
sympathy and condolence to those who grieve; as one who, too, has lost in
the passing away of this young woman.

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