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Submitted: 2/3/21 • Approved: 2/4/21 • Last Updated: 2/7/21 • R385847-G0-S3
US Air Force
Korea
December 15, 1931-October 18, 1999
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
FRITCH - Arlen Hale, 67, died Monday, Oct. 18, 1999.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Friday at Brown Funeral Directors Chapel of the Fountains with the Rev. Alvie Fletcher officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery by Brown Funeral Directors of Borger.
Mr. Hale was a native of Dietrich, Idaho, and a Fritch resident for 13 years. A veteran of the Korean War, he served in the Air Force. He was an electrician and instrument man for Phillips Petroleum for 34 years and worked for the National Park Service for 12 years.
He was a Baptist, a 32nd-degree Mason in the Billy Dixon Masonic Lodge, and a member of the Scottish Rite and Shriners.
He married Tommie Johnson in 1956 at Clayton, N.M.
Survivors include his wife; three sons, Kenneth Hale of Borger, Joe Hale of Dallas and Mark Hale of Robin Air Force Base, Ga.; a daughter, Tacy Dry of Amarillo; two sisters, Kathy Hindi of Mabank and Mary Engle of Cajon, Calif.; and nine grandchildren.
Family visitation will be from 6:30 until 8 p.m. today at Brown Funeral Directors.
The family requests memorials be to Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, P.O. Box 199300, Dallas, TX 75219-9842, or to the Grand Chapter of Texas, Order of the Eastern Star Eastoral Fund, 1111 E. Division, Arlington, TX 76011.
Amarillo Daily News, Oct. 21, 1999
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