Ace Ray Dykes (1895-1932)

DYKES, FOSTER, TEATER, NASH, WISDOM, SWETT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/19/2021 at 22:06:47

From Nevada Evening Journal February 16, 1932 (page 4)

Foreign War Veteran Was Buried Today

Special to the Journal.
Ames, Feb. 16--Funeral services for Ace R. Dykes, 37, World War veteran, who died at Mary Greeley hospital Saturday night from injuries sustained in a motor car crash July 20, were held this afternoon at 2:00 from the Adams Funeral home, after which interment was in the Ames cemetery under the direction of officers and members of Harry T. Corbin post Veterans of Foreign Wars, with firing squad in attendance.

Mr. Dykes was a world war veteran, with service in three major engagements in France, at Chateau Thierry, Verdun an St. Mihiel. He enlisted at Albia, Iowa, sept 18, 1917, serving in Company G. 59th Infantry. His foreign service dated from May 5, 1918 to January 5, 1919, when he was returned to the states, gassed. He was discharged a month later.

He was born at Mystic, Iowa, June 4, 1894 and was always a farmer, living for the past three years on a farm a mile north of Dayton park. He was two years a student at Iowa State college taking an agricultural course.

Besides his wife, Mr. Dykes leaves two daughters, Mary Alice, 6 and Edna May, 2; three brothers, Earl Dykes of Mystic, Joe Dykes of Onamia, Minn., and Harry Dykes of Ashley, Neb.; six sisters, Mrs. Clem Foster, Mrs. Cora Foster, Mrs. Clara Teater and Mrs. Carl Nash, all of Mystic, Mrs. Anna Wisdom of Wray, Col., and Mrs. Lula Swett of Hyannis, Neb.; and his mother, Mrs. S. A. Dykes of Mystic.