Margaret 'Peggy' Dykes
Lieu de décès : Victoria, Colombie Britannique, Canada
Date de décès : 17 mai 2011
Margaret passed away May 17, 2011 in Victoria, B.C.
She was born in her family home at Munro’s Point, Cape Breton to Captain Angus and Mary Carmichael. At a young age she often travelled with her family on her father’s schooner ‘The Ambition’. Her sea-faring family and Scottish heritage influenced her long and well-lived life. In 1937 Margaret graduated from Normal College in Truro, N.S. She was a highly regarded school teacher who, during the war, changed careers and worked as an inventory clerk at the Halifax dockyards. There she met and married Lt. Cmdr. Randle Dykes. They settled in Baddeck, N.S. where they raised their three children, Heather (Lloyd) MacInnes, John (Margot) and Randle (Patty).
Margaret moved to Victoria, B.C. with her husband and sons in 1964 when Randle became captain of the weathership CCGS St. Catharines.
Her husband, Capt. Dykes passed away in 1999. Margaret was also predeceased by her sister, Muriel Bethune; brothers, Hector and Donald Carmichael and a great-grandson, Noah.
Left to mourn her loss are her three children, her grandchildren, Lloyd Michael (Trina), Megan (David) MacInnes, Meadow, Allan and David (Cori) Dykes. Also missing Margaret will be six great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews, and her brother-in-law, Normie Bethune.
A Service of Remembrance will be held at St Ann’s Bay United Church at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31, 2011.
Donations in her memory can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society or to St. Ann’s Bay United Church.
