Ida Marie Smith Dykes

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Ida Marie Smith Dykes will be conducted from the Martin Funeral Chapel at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday with Rev. Bob Stewart of Clinton officiating. Burial will be in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.

Mrs. Dykes was born March 21, 1921 in Wilcox, Arizona, and died October 2, 1988 in the Community Hospital at the age of 67.

She was raised in Arizona and came to Hammon in 1937 following her marriage to Leslie Clayton Dykes in Glendale, Arizona, on June 7, 1937.

They later moved to a farm in the Herring community where they lived until 1973 when they moved to Elk City.

She worked at the Ramada Inn and as a kitchen employee at the Community Hospital until her retirement in 1982.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Hammon.

Family members surviving her include five children, Ida Marlene Goodman of Elk City; Orvilla Redd of Yukon; Bill Dykes of Elk City; Leslie Joe Dykes of Houston, Texas; and Teddy Eugne Dykes of Newark, California; one brother, Ted Smith of San Leandro, California; and one sister, Mildred Guarin of Phoenix, Arizona; sixteen grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leslie Dykes on October 1, 1982; and one son, Doyle Dykes.