Marlene Blake

Elk City Daily News

20 Jun 2006

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Marlene Blake will be held Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. from the Martin Funeral Home Chapel of Elk City with Rev. Danny Ringer officiating. Interment will follow in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Martin Funeral Home.

Ida Marlene Blake was born March 17, 1938 at Hammon to Clay and Ida (Smith) Dykes and died Monday June 19, 2006 at the age of 68.

Marlene attended Herring and Hammon Schools. She lived in Kansas, Georgia and then returned to western Oklahoma. She volunteered at nursing homes and was active in blood drives in her community.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and four brothers, Billy Newton Dykes, Doyle Duane Dykes, Teddy Eugene Dykes and Leslie Joe Dykes.

Survivors include her children, Randall Baker and wife Betty of Texas, Andrew Baker and wife, Toni of Wichita, Kansas, Vona Hicks and husband, Randall of Cordell, Darrell Baker of Amarillo, Texas, Neta Edler and husband, Alan of Foss, and Ronda Rinehart and husband, Daune of Wichita, Kansas, one sister Orvilla Ross of Oklahoma City, and 10 grandchildren.