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Louis Henry "Don" DYKE, Jr. M.D.^{1, 2}

Born 01 July 1909 in Guayaguil, Ecuador to Louis Henry DYKE, whose work as a mining engineer brought the family to Ecuador, and Ella Augusta CLARK.^{1, 2, 3}  Married Margaret Elizabeth DYER.^{1, 2}  Died 03 FEB 1948 at his home in Berkeley, CA of a heart attack, just five years after his own fathers' death from heart attack.^{1, 2, 4, 5}

Children with Margaret Elizabeth Dyer:

<LIVING> female, with issue.²

<LIVING> male, with issue.²

The family story is that he was the first anglo baby seen by the villagers of Guayaguil, who called him by the honorific "Don Luis".  He was known as "Don" for the rest of his life.  Served as a medical navy lieutenant commander in country and in the South Pacific until his release in 1946.  Was a pathologist and brought his work home, working out of the maid's room in the basement of his house.  Was interested in taking color slides of specimens and often did this at home.  Was a partner at Western Laboratory in Oakland California.^{1, 2, 4}

Was a member of Alpha Lambda fraternity as was his father.  Graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1932 and graduated from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1937.  Other medical affiliations included:

Member of the Board of Directors, Alameda County Blood B Lank

Member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists

Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology

President of the California Pathological Society

Secretary of the San Francisco Pathological Society⁵

View Secretary of the Navy condolence letter.

*Grandfather of the Cactus.

1. Mother of loafingcactus, personal knowledge and research.

2. The Cactus, personal knowledge.

3. United States Census, 1920.

4. E. William Gourd, Gourd Family Genealogy (Clarks, Dykes, Gourds, Forsaiths, etc.), May 1995. updated January 1997.

5. UC Berkeley Alumni Magazine

This page last updated 31AUG2005.

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