Our Family Legend Dale

One of the most influential and inspiration people I’ve ever known Unexpectedly had his life stolen from him at 2:00 a.m as a Random drunk driver struck him as he sat on a residential street’s curb. Fated to die before reaching his full potential was A young man almost finished with law school. My remarkable red-haired stepbrother Dale was eleven and I was eight when his father married my mother. Little had I known of many great male role models by that point in time, Yet after meeting Dale, I got to have a personal hero. Loving, outgoing, smart, talented and enthusiastic was he. Every time a friend or I needed help, he was there for us. Gregarious too, he and I could chat for hours at the kitchen table during Evenings that sometimes melded easily into midnight. Never was he unkind, disrespectful or spiteful During the twenty years I was to know him. Dutiful to the church we attended, he served a mission because As a believer in Christ, he wanted desperately to please the Lord. Life put trials in his path; I believe God wanted Dale back in heaven. Even now, I count him as the soul I hope to meet first beyond the veil.