Obituary for Keith Richard Dykins Keith Richard Dykins, age 91, of Beach, North Dakota, died Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at CHI St. Alexius Hospital in Dickinson, North Dakota. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 AM on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Beach with Rev. Fr.
Dan Berg officiating. A Vigil Service will be held at 7:00 PM on Monday, December 10, 2018 at the church. Silha Funeral Home of Beach is entrusted with arrangements.
Keith was born on May 31, 1927, at the Dykins’ Farm, near Sentinel Butte, North Dakota a son of Frank and Mabel (Sells), Keith grew up there. From the age of eleven, after the death of his paternal grandfather, Keith joined his grandmother in Ramona, South Dakota to help manage the farm. He lived there, attending school and farming, for three years.
In 1941, he returned to Sentinel Butte, farming and raising cattle with his parents. Keith met Marjorie Ann Niece through his sister, Lorraine. When Margie graduated from nursing school in Montana, they married at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church on February 17, 1953.
After making the decision to farm, they traveled around to find the best farmland, and seeing Kansas had not cleaned up from the Dust Bowl yet, they came back home and farmed and raised a family together in the Sentinel Butte/Beach area. They were married fifty- three years, until Margie’s death in July of 2006. To this union three children were born: Jim, Joan and Jack.
Keith enjoyed raising and showing Shorthorn cattle. He traveled the United States and Canada judging and showing bulls. Prairie Sportsman and Glamour Boy were his two best.
Believing he would not have been as successful in farming and honored to have been trusted with their land, Glenn Cook and Mary Hess sold Keith the first land he owned. Keith was a member of the Beach Masonic Lodge and St. John’s Catholic Church. Keith enjoyed his life as a farmer and was proud his sons and grandsons continue to farm the land that has been in his family for over 100 years.
His children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren brought him great joy. Keith was preceded in death by brothers and sister-in-law, Frank and Gean and Justin; sister, Lorraine and brother-in-law, Bob; sister-in-law, Elaire; brother-in-law, Joe Niece and wife Madge and sister-in-law, Mary Helen Niece Marman and husband Don; nieces, Debi and Terri and great-grandson Rhett Dykins. Keith is survived by son, Jim Dykins and wife Vicki of Beach, daughter, Joan Stringer and husband Jack of Loveland, Colorado and son, Jack Dykins and wife Leigh of Beach.
He is also survived by grandchildren, Staci (Russ), Jay (Lindsay) and Kayla (Robert); Mary (Alex), John (Melissa) and David; Lane, Lance (Heather) and Kelcee; great-grandchildren, Keaton, Ahnika, Aubrie, Cruz, Crosby, Mia, Alyiah, Cohen, Andrew, Maggie, Landon, Austin and Lincoln. He is also survived by a brother, Charlie, a sister, Joyce and his sister-in-law, Betty Dykins. Memorials may be donated to your charity of choice or Keith’s favorite charity, Shriners Hospital for Children.
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