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Dalke, Diedrich L. (1882-1971)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1971 Mar 25 p. 8
Birth date: 1882
text of obituary:
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ENID, OKLAHOMA
March 14, 1971
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Diedrick [sic Diedrich] L. Dalke, 89, died in Alexandria, Va., his home, and the funeral will be tomorrow at that place. Mr. Dalke was born at Henderson, Neb. in 1882 and came to Enid with his parents at the time of the opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893, settling on a farm near North Enid and experienced with others the rigors of the pioneering days. After schooling, as was the custom in those early times, he left Enid as a young man to acquire knowledge for higher degrees and spent his entire life until retirement in educational work. He was a great historian and "Mennonite Life" has carried several lengthy illustrated articles written by him telling about pioneering Mennonites in those times. As a boy, in 1893-1895, he watched as clay was dug from the banks of Skeleton creek, and saw the bricks molded and laid out in the hot Oklahoma sun. These were used in 1895 in building the two-story high school in North Enid where he and his brothers later attended and graduated prior to going out in the world as successful young men on their own.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1971 Apr 15 p. 11
