{"id":13118,"date":"2019-03-25T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=13118"},"modified":"2019-03-25T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T22:06:24","slug":"obituary-dykes-leslie-eugene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=13118","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Dykes, Leslie Eugene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1936_Dykes_Leslie.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Eugene Dykes\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1936<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1936 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<br \/>Leslie Dykes<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Dykes, was born May 22, 1918 in Noble County, Oklahoma.  All his school days were spent in the Perry system.<\/p>\n<p>He participated in the typewriting contest at Tonkawa in April of this year.<\/p>\n<p>He expects to work in Perry at the Dykes&#8217; filling station next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Leslie Eugene Dykes<\/h1>\n<h3>May 22, 1918 &#8211; February 22, 1969<\/h3>\n<p>Leslie Dykes, 51, of Clinton, former Noble county deputy county clerk, died at 5 p.m. Sunday at his home of a heart ailment.  Dykes had open heart surgery Jan. 6 in Baptist Memorial hospital, Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Services were pending Monday in Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Perry high school, Dykes was born southeast of Perry.  On May 14, 1938 he and Alice Gross were married in Tillman, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>He served as a deputy Noble county clerk in 1940-42. He moved from Perry in 1942 to Clinton, and had worked since then as Frisco Railroad depot agent.  <\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his wife, Alice, of the home; two daughters, Mrs. R. B. Graft, Leedey; and Mrs. Charles Lacy III, Abilene, Texas; his mother, Mrs. J. O. (Mollie) Dykes, a patient at Green Valley Nursing Home here; and two brothers, Haskell, Enid; and John, Perry.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13123,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13118\/revisions\/13123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}