Funeral services for Doyle Duane Dykes will be conducted on Saturday, November 21, 1981 at 1:30 p.m. at the Martin Funeral Chapel with Bro. Hershall Enslinger officiating. Interment will follow in Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.

Mr. Dykes was born on November 9, 1941 and he died November 19, 1981 at the age of 40.

He attended school in the Herring community and was graduated from Hammon High School.

He then joined the Navy and served in the Vietnam War.

After the war, he was injured August 30, 1968, while he and his father were demolishing a building which left him a paraplegic the rest of his life. After the accident, he was able to continue a near normal life.

Doyle was a member of the Baptist Church in Hammon, and he was also a member of the Disabled Veterans Organization.

He had lived in the Hammon and Herring communitites all of his life, except for the last six years, since then he had lived in Elk City.

Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clay Dykes of Elk City; one daughter, Darlene Dykes of Elk City; three brothers, Bill Dykes of Elk City; L. M. "Joe" Dykes of Elk City; and Ted Dykes of Freemont, Californiia; two sisters, Marelen Goodman of Hammon and Orvilla Redd of Chickasha; several nieces and nephews; and one great niece and one great nephew.

Casket Bearers were Gail Walker, Jr. McCurley, C. H. Snow, Ronald Redd, Bob Branham and Bob Branham.

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