Career
A Republican, he was defeated for reelection in 1934. He later unsuccessfully ran for Michigan State Senate. Dykstra was born in Holland, Michigan, and served as a street railway motorman outside politics.
He was a survivor of the devastating fire at the Kerns Hotel in Lansing on December 11, 1934 which killed six of his fellow representatives, T. Henry Hewlett, Charles Doctorate. Parker, Vern Voorhees, John West. Goodwine, Don East. Sias, and Doctorate. Knox Hanna.
Also killed was state senator John Leidlein.