Dyck, Margaret (1906-2007)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 May 28 p. 9

Birth date: 1906 Feb 20

text of obituary:

MARGARET DYCK

Margaret Dyck, 101, died May 16, 2007, at Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community in Buhler, Kan. She was born Feb. 20, 1906, to John and Maria Adrian Dyck in Corn, Okla. In 1914, she accompanied her family as they settled on a farm near Buhler. She graduated from Buhler High School in 1924.

On July 13, 1924, she was baptized and joined Buhler Mennonite Brethren Church. Her faith was expressed in active church involvement, teaching Sunday school, singing in the choir and serving in women’s mission societies.

She attended Tabor College, Fort Hays State University and Southwestern State University. She spent seven years as an elementary school teacher. Her first school was in Oklahoma, where she taught one year. From there she went to Lakeside Rural School near Buhler and also taught in the Pretty Prairie and Moundridge school districts.

Her desire to enter the business world led her to Salt City Business College in Hutchinson, where she studied bookkeeping and secretarial work. She then worked at Schneider Oil Company in Buhler for six years and with McNaghten Loan and Investment Co. for 18 years. During World War II she managed the Reno County Rationing Office.

After the war she moved to Anaheim, Calif., where she worked at real estate escrow offices and the F.F. Olds Instrument Co. In 1968 she moved to Cordell, Okla., and later to Hutchinson. Her last move was to Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community, where she was active in the auxiliary.

She always affiliated with a church where she resided. In Hutchinson she was a member of Trinity Methodist Church, in California she joined Fullerton Baptist Church, in Oklahoma she belonged to Cordell Mennonite Brethren Church, and in 1973 she transferred her membership back to Buhler MB. Here she joined the Herrwana Chapter Mission Society, a women’s sewing circle for supporting global missions.

Although she never married, she found great joy in developing close bonds with nieces and nephews. She celebrated significant landmark occasions in her life and theirs.

Those mourning her death are nine nieces and nephews living in Texas, Oklahoma, California, Virginia and the state of Washington.

She was preceded in death by two sisters, Susie Warkentin and Selma Atkinson; and three brothers, Henry, Dave and Pete Dyck.

Services were held at Buhler MB Church. Burial was in Buhler Cemetery.