Eliza Jane Dykes

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Services for Mrs. Eliza Jane Dykes were conducted Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in the Pentecostal Holiness Church, with Rev. Albert T. Trent, Hobart, officiating. Burial was in Kiowa Cemtery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.

Eliza Jane Hall was born at Carter, Ky., on March 13, 1873; departed this life on April 12, 1951 in the hospital at Clinton, Oklahoma at the age of 78 years.

On March 18, 1892 she was united in marriage to Henry Clay Dykes. To this union were born twelve children, six of them having preceded her in death. Her husband passed away August 25, 1933.

She leaves to mourn her passing four sons, Rubin Dykes, Samora, Calif.; Bob Dykes, Vancouver, Washington; Ted Dykes, Borger, Texas; Clay Dykes, Skellytwon, Texas; two daughters, Mrs. Hannah A. Bender, Arcata, California and Mrs. Ella McWhorter, Amarillo, Texas; 23 grandchildren; 7 great grandchildren, 1 great great grandson, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Mrs. Dykes became a Christian at the age of twelve; in 1902 she became a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, and lived a devoted Christina life. In most every service she would request prayer for her children. She was a kind and loving mother; and a friend to all who knew her.

Her greatest desire in life was that she might bring a little ray of sunshine to those she met.

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