1919
Vivian
2013
Vivian Darlene Dykeman
April 13, 1919 — January 21, 2013
Graveside Service will be 10:00am Thursday, January 24, 2013 at Llano Cemetery. Arrangements by LaGrone-Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Coulter Road Chapel, with Terry A. Stallings, officiating
VISITATION: 6-7pm Wednesday at the LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home, Coulter Road Chapel
Vivian Dykeman was born April 13, 1919 in Hatfield, Missouri unto Warren Kent and Sue Lesan Nelson. . She attended Northwest Missouri State College and moved to Amarillo, Texas in 1939. She married Ralph Dykeman in 1940. Her husband along with Cal Farley founded the Maverick Club in Amarillo in 1934. The late Mr. Dykeman ran the club for just over 40 years. Vivian was the librarian there for many years, as well as Mr. Dykeman's helpmate at the Club and the summer camp in New Mexico.
She was preceded in death by her husband Ralph Dykeman, her father Warren Kent, her mother Sue, her brother Curtis, and a stepdaughter Sue Barone.
She is survived by her sister, Shirley Nelson House of Andalusia, AL, several nieces and nephews, several step grandchildren, cousins and many Maverick Club boys.
MEMORIALS:
In lieu of flowers family requests memorials to Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch
VISITATION: 6-7pm Wednesday at the LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home, Coulter Road Chapel
Vivian Dykeman was born April 13, 1919 in Hatfield, Missouri unto Warren Kent and Sue Lesan Nelson. . She attended Northwest Missouri State College and moved to Amarillo, Texas in 1939. She married Ralph Dykeman in 1940. Her husband along with Cal Farley founded the Maverick Club in Amarillo in 1934. The late Mr. Dykeman ran the club for just over 40 years. Vivian was the librarian there for many years, as well as Mr. Dykeman's helpmate at the Club and the summer camp in New Mexico.
She was preceded in death by her husband Ralph Dykeman, her father Warren Kent, her mother Sue, her brother Curtis, and a stepdaughter Sue Barone.
She is survived by her sister, Shirley Nelson House of Andalusia, AL, several nieces and nephews, several step grandchildren, cousins and many Maverick Club boys.
MEMORIALS:
In lieu of flowers family requests memorials to Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch
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