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Lester Lowell Dikis

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Lester Lowell Dikis

Birth
Waverly, Morgan County, Illinois, USA
Death
22 Oct 1987 (aged 70)
Perryville, Perry County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Waverly, Morgan County, Illinois, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.5916672, Longitude: -89.9441681
Plot
E1/2 362
Memorial ID
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Find A Grave contributor Shirley has made a suggestion
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Also married (2) Vivian Pryor

Lester Dikis' biological parents, Oscar and Daisy Sperry, died of influenza in 1920.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107124795/oscar-alonzo-sperry
Lester was adopted by the Dikis family.
His biological siblings were: Russell L Sperry, William A Sperry, Hubert A "Jim" Sperry, Velma I Sperry, and Virgil E Sperry. Lester also had two sisters who died before he was born, Wilma L Sperry (7, typhoid), and Opal M Sperry (4, influenza).
Contributor: Darin Absher (50271793)
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Waverly Journal, Date Unknown
Lester L. Dikis, 70, of Perryville, Mo. died October 22, 1987 at his residence.
He was born March 23, 1917 in Waverly, son of Walter B. and Cora Brown Dikis Nortrup.
Lester graduated from WTHS in the class of 1935. He married Ruth Curtiss Dec.4, 1937 and they were he parents of two children, Lester Curtiss Dikis, now of Prior Lake, Minn. and a daughter, Ruth Ann Dikis of Waterford, Conn.
His second wife, Vivian Pryor, who he married in June, 1980, and his father, Jack Dikis, both preceded him in death.
Mr. Dikis was a member of Perry County Senior Citizens Organization and a member of the First Baptist Church.
Services were held Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Young and Sons Chapel in Perryville, Mo., with the Rev. Randy Fullerton officiating.
Interment was in the East Cemetery in Waverly.
Find A Grave contributor Shirley has made a suggestion
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Also married (2) Vivian Pryor

Lester Dikis' biological parents, Oscar and Daisy Sperry, died of influenza in 1920.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107124795/oscar-alonzo-sperry
Lester was adopted by the Dikis family.
His biological siblings were: Russell L Sperry, William A Sperry, Hubert A "Jim" Sperry, Velma I Sperry, and Virgil E Sperry. Lester also had two sisters who died before he was born, Wilma L Sperry (7, typhoid), and Opal M Sperry (4, influenza).
Contributor: Darin Absher (50271793)
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Waverly Journal, Date Unknown
Lester L. Dikis, 70, of Perryville, Mo. died October 22, 1987 at his residence.
He was born March 23, 1917 in Waverly, son of Walter B. and Cora Brown Dikis Nortrup.
Lester graduated from WTHS in the class of 1935. He married Ruth Curtiss Dec.4, 1937 and they were he parents of two children, Lester Curtiss Dikis, now of Prior Lake, Minn. and a daughter, Ruth Ann Dikis of Waterford, Conn.
His second wife, Vivian Pryor, who he married in June, 1980, and his father, Jack Dikis, both preceded him in death.
Mr. Dikis was a member of Perry County Senior Citizens Organization and a member of the First Baptist Church.
Services were held Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Young and Sons Chapel in Perryville, Mo., with the Rev. Randy Fullerton officiating.
Interment was in the East Cemetery in Waverly.


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