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Friends may call from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln.
His funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Holy
Family Church of Lincoln, with the Rev. John Pham
officiating.
Columbarium inurnment with military
honors will be at Arlington National Cemetery,
Arlington, Va.
He worked for Nabisco Services and then managed a
Spurgeons store in Iowa and later the store in
Lincoln. He opened the Dollar Store in 1962. He was
always an entrepreneur, as he even sold electric
cars in 1975.
During World War II he served in the U.S. Army,
625th Engineer Equipment Company, in England,
Germany, France, Belgium and the Philippine Islands.
He was born Dec. 30, 1922, in Lincoln, a son of
Henry and Helen Amberg Dirks. He married Bette
Talkin, and she preceded him in death.
He is survived by two sons, Bradley (and Joy)
Dirks of Valparaiso, Ind., and Jeffery (and Linda)
Dirks of Mount Pulaski; one daughter, Marcia (and
Kenton) Stoll of Chestnut; two brothers, Henry Dirks
of Kewanee and Ronald Dirks of Lovington; two
sisters, Phyllis (and Lloyd) Leesman of Lincoln and
Joyce Anderson of Springfield; seven grandchildren;
and two great-grandchildren.
He was also preceded in death by one sister,
Helen Mary Barrow. |
Harold was a member of Holy Family Church, a
lifelong member of the Elks Lodge, past member of
the Rotary Club, instrumental in Lincoln's downtown
development, volunteered at the Carmelite Convent in
St. Louis and assisted in a St. Louis Mass for the
pope.
For his military service he was awarded two
Overseas Service Bars, the American Campaign Medal
and the World War II Victory Medal.
He was devoted to his grandchildren. He loved to
track their activities and bragged on them often.
Memorials may be made to Friendship Manor.
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