Dickson L. Flake was born on August 10, 1938, in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.
Flake joined the Air National Guard in 1956. Later that year he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend the University of Michigan. Flake graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1960. Upon graduation, he went to work for the Burroughs Corporation in Detroit while continuing his education at the University of Michigan. He graduated with an MBA in 1963.
Flake returned to Little Rock in 1965 to work in commercial real estate as head of the Walthour-Flake Company, Inc. In 1971 he cofounded Barnes, Quinn, Flake & Anderson, a real estate development firm, now known as Colliers International | Arkansas. Flake was appointed director of the Little Rock branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in 1989.
He was elected to the American Society of Real Estate Counselors and became their national president in 1989. Flake has served on the Board of Visitors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the St. Vincent Infirmary Board of Directors, and has served on the Board of Trustees of Lyon College in Batesville.
Flake passed away on June 30, 2020.
#1: Composite image of early photo of Dickson Flake and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Dickson Flake's maternal grandfather, Perry Simpson, with his maternal great-grandfather, Dr. Albert Ross Simpson
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#3: Dickson Flake's maternal grandmother, Marie Hvizdalek (Simpson) in her high school graduation portrait, 1906
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#4: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#5: Dickson Flake's grandparents, Marie and Perry Simpson, with their daughters: Marguerite (back, 2nd from left) and Louise; (front) Caroline and Winnie
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#6: Dickson Flake's mother, Marguerite Simpson Flake
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#7: Dickson Flake's mother, Marguerite Simpson Flake, 1935
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#8: Portrait of Dickson Flake as a baby
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#9: Portrait of Dickson Flake as a toddler
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#10: Dickson Flake as a young boy, 1945
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#11: Dickson Flake (left) with his brother, Gordon
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#12: Dickson Flake (left) with his brother, Gordon
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#13: Dickson Flake (left) with his brother, Gordon, October 1946
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#14: Dickson Flake's mother, Marguerite Flake
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#15: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#16: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#17: Dickson Flake (standing, right), with his brothers (clockwise from bottom right), Tommy, John, and Gordon
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#18: Dickson Flake (top right) with his family: (clockwise from bottom right) John, Marguerite, Tommy, and Gordon
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#19: Dickson Flake, left, with his brothers, Gordon, John, and Tommy, and their father, Leon
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#20: Dickson Flake
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#21: Dickson Flake's wife, Linda Clement Flake
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#22: Dickson Flake's wife, Linda Clement Flake
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#23: Dickson Flake's wife, Linda Clement Flake, age 20; Hot Springs, Arkansas
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#24: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#25: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#26: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#27: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#28: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#29: Dickson Flake's brother, Tommy, 1973
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#30: Dickson Flake's mother, Marguerite Flake
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#31: Dickson Flake's brother, Gordon, with his family, Heather and Cristina Flake, 1980
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#32: Dickson Flake's brother, Tommy
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#33: Dickson Flake's mother, Marguerite Flake
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#34: Dickson Flake's wife, Linda Flake
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#35: Dickson and Linda Flake
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#36: Dickson Flake's granddaughter, Sarah Shellam, with 9-day-old foal, RC's Little Dipper; Easter 2001
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#37: Dickson Flake's granddaughter, Sarah Shellam
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#38: Dickson Flake's granddaughter, Sarah Shellam
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#39: Dickson Flake's daughter, Leslye Shellam
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#40: Dickson Flakes daughter, Leslye Shellam, with her husband, Ray
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#41: Dickson Flake's granddaughter, Sarah, with her father, Ray Shellam
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#42: Dickson Flake's daughter, Leslye Shellam
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#43: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Dickson Flake; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2010
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#44: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Dickson Flake; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2010
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