SHERIDAN-Memorial services for Sheridan resident Dee Duncan, 89, will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at St. Peter's Episcopal Church by Revs. David Duprey and Ray Clark.  Interment will follow in Sheridan Elks Cemetery.

He died Feb. 12, 2002, at Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County.

He was born Sept. 22, 1912, in Eureka, Kan., the son of Lawrence and Jessie (Dickinson) Duncan and moved to Sheridan at a young age.  His early years were spent east of Sheridan on his parent's ranch on Prairie Dog, attending a one-room schoolhouse, and riding a horse part of the way to Sheridan High School.  He was elected president of his sophomore class.

Following high school, he attended Hieman Business College and then worked at the Bank of Commerce, where he set up the first bookkeeping system.  He then worked for the Monarch Coal Co.

In 1940, he married Clara Louise Hayman.

When Monarch closed in the mid-1950s, he began working for his brother, Elwood, at Duncan and Dickinson.  A few years later, he took a job with his friend, Leo Mossholder, at Mossholder's Furniture, working there until his retirement in 1974.

The longest active member of Elks Lodge No. 520 with 65 years, he was exalted ruler in 1948 and 1949 and served on the governing and trustee boards.  On May 10, 1972, he was elected to honorary life membership.  A member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, he enjoyed fishing, hunting, and spending time at his cabin in the Big Hdorn Mountains' Peaceful Valley.

Survivors include his wife of Sheridan; two daughters, Dorothy Dee Bayne of Tacoma, Wash., and Judy Louise Biehl and her husband of Harrisburg, Pa.; three grandsons; and two great-granddaughters.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Elwood and Lee Duncan.

Memorials may be made to the Elks Cemetery Fund, in care of Delphine Toner, First Interstate Bank, P.O. Box 2007, Sheridan 82801.

Kane funeral home is in charge of arrangements.