Bertram S. Dickey (1870-1956)

DICKEY, MILLER, KLEIN, DEWELL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/9/2014 at 22:48:15

From Nevada Journal January 26, 1956

Funeral services for Bert S. Dickey were held from the Ryan Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. David Ash of the Nevada Methodist church officiating.

Mrs. Norman Dobson was at the organ playing a number of selections at the opening and closing of the service.

The entire casket was banked with beautiful floral offerings expressive of the high esteem in which the deceased was held in the community.

Members of the local Masonic lodge attended the service in a body.

Commital was in the Nevada cemetery.

The casket bearers were Abner Harlow, John Hattery, O. R. Solem, Harold Tipton and H. E. Wright.

Bert S. Dickey was born at Hazelgreen, Ia., Nov 3, 1870, a son of Charles H. and Mertie Sherman Dickey and had been a resident of Story County for 50 years. Longtime Nevada business man, he had retired after selling the Deola Milling Co., July 1, 1954.

He was united in marriage Sept. 14, 1893, to Belle Miller in Slater, Iowa who preceded him in death in 1944.

Mr. Dickey was a member of the Nevada Methodist church, and of the Nevada Masonic Lodge and the Eastern Star.

He had served on the City Council for a number of years and had held other offices of civic trust during his long residence in Nevada.

Three sons survive the father, Lyle M. Dickey of Des Moines, Charles Harold Dickey of Long Beach, Calif. and Byron F. Dickey of Des Moines. He leaves two grandchildren, Mrs. Ted Klein and Claude George Dickey, both of Des Moines.

Also surviving are one brother, Dr. C. G. Dickey of Long Beach, Calif., and one sister, Mrs. Mabel Dewell of Muskogee, Okla.

One son, Glen Dickey, died in 1937.

The last rites were largely attended by relatives and friends.