{"id":6817,"date":"2016-12-11T14:06:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=6817"},"modified":"2020-03-14T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:08:19","slug":"obituary-dykes-john-henry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=6817","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Dykes, John Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1932_Dykes_John-1.jpg\" alt=\"John Henry Dykes\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1932<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>John Henry Dykes<\/h1>\n<h3>July 12, 1913 &#8211; March 24, 1997<\/h3>\n<p>John H. Dykes, 83, long-time Perryan, died at 11:15 a.m. Monday, March 24, 1997, at Perry Memorial hospital. Funeral was at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Presbyterian church. Rev. Cortez Cranfill officiated. Burial was in Grace Hill cemetery under direction of Brown Funeral home. <\/p>\n<p>Dykes was the son of John O. and Mollie (Farrer) Dykes. He was born in Grant county, Oklahoma on July 12, 1913. <\/p>\n<p>He was a graduate of Perry high school. On Nov. 23, 1941, he and Lillie Schlosser were married at Perry. <\/p>\n<p>A member of the United States Army during World War II, Dykes served with the 188th Medical Corps in England and played with the 45th band. He worked as a mechanic and had been employed at the Oldsmobile garage and Randall Motor Company in Perry for a number of years. He retired from the Oklahoma Highway Department. Dykes was a member of the First Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his wife, of the home, survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Delores and James Henderson, Perry; a granddaughter, Mrs. Mark (Sherry) Marston, Perry; three grandsons, Bryan Henderson, El Reno, Randy Henderson, Morrison, and Matthew Henderson, Perry; and four great-grandchildren, Jared, Brianna and Michaela Marston, Perry, and Jacob Henderson, El Reno.<\/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\/6817"}],"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=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16448,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6817\/revisions\/16448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}