Cecil Dahlke, 83, of Canyon died Wednesday, May 1, 2002.

Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Saturday in Brooks Funeral Directors Chapel with Gig Siemens, Alvin Howard and Melvin Darnell officiating.

Burial will be in Dreamland Cemetery.

Mr. Dahlke was born May 3, 1918, in Avery, Oklahoma to August and Mary Ahner Dahlke.

He married Dorothy Hammack in Mountain Home, Arkansas in 1938. They moved to Canyon in 1964 and he owned and operated Whites Auto Store.

He was a carpenter and worked on dams including Bull Shoals and Norfork Dams in Mountain Home.

He was a member of Sixth Avenue Church of Christ in Canyon.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Patty Weidner in 2000; five brothers and two sisters.

Survivors include his wife, a daughter, Carolyn Morris and husband, Howard, of Canyon; a granddaughter, Paula Siemens and husband, Gig, of Brush Creek, Tennessee, a grandson, Randy Morris and wife, Sonya, of Canyon; and four great-grandchildren, Nicole Siemens, Lindsay Siemens, Timmy Morris and Sadie Morris.

Published May 3, 2002.