Obit of Dykes, Leslie Joe (d220) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Marlene Dykes 19 Sep 2000 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: DYKES, SMITH, CAMPBELL, PERRY, WILLIAMS, THETFORD, BLAKE, ROSS, BENN Newspaper 27 Mar 1998 Beckham Co., OK LESLIE JOE DYKES Funeral services for Leslie Joe DYKES will be 2 p.m., Saturday, from the Martin Funeral Chapel with Daryle PERRY and Claud WILLIAMS officiating. Burial will follow in the Red Hill Cemetery under the direction of Martin Funeral Home of Elk City. Leslie Joe DYKES was born May 26, 1943 at the family farm in the Herring community to Leslie Clayton and Ida Marie (SMITH)DYKES and died Thursday at the age of 54. He married Betty Sue CAMPBELL on February 2, 1963. They had two children, Leslie Wayne and Kimberlie Sue. Joe farmed in the Merritt community for many years and worked for Shell Oil Company. After he quit farming, Joe made his home in Houston and retired from Shell in 1993. He then returned to Elk City. Joe was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers. Survivors include his two children, Leslie Wayne DYKES and wife Robin of Leedey and Kimberlie Sue THETFORD and husband Gary Don of Elk City; three grandchildren, Chelsea DYKES, Dakota DYKES and Logan THETFORD; two sisters, Marlene BLAKE of Savannah, Georgia and Orvilla ROSS of Oklahoma City; an uncle, Wesley DYKES of Elk City; an aunt, Odessa (DYKES) BENN of Elk City; many nieces and nephews and cousins. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html