Obit.Cherokee County,OK MATHEWS, Dale E.
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Posted by Terrill White on 14Nov2005 terrillwhite1978@aol.com
Dale E. Mathews

Graveside services for Dale E. Mathews, 79, will be held at 1 p.m., Monday, 
April 11, 2005, at the Fort Gibson National Cemetery, with Dr. G. Allen Schneider 
officiating. Services are under the direction of Hart Funeral Home.

Dale E. Mathews was born to Virgil James and Willie (Redmon) Mathews on 
Sept. 24, 1925, in Stigler, and passed from this life on April 5, 2005, in Muskogee.

Dale attended Tahlequah High School and Northeastern State University, before 
joining the U.S. Navy, and serving during World War II on the USS Merrick as a 
signalman. After an honorable discharge, he returned home and received his 
teaching degree at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Dale began teaching veterans agriculture at Weleetka Public Schools, where he met 
and, four years later, married Ellen Wilson, his wife of 51 years

Dale was a third-generation rancher, whose career never strayed far from the ranch 
as he taught agriculture at Weleetka, heavy equipment operation at the Bill Willis 
Vo-Tech, and served as a Cherokee County commissioner.

Dale was of the Methodist faith, and a member of the First United Methodist Church 
in Tahlequah. He had served on the board of directors for the Tahlequah Chamber of 
Commerce, past president of the Lions Club, Cherokee Masonic Lodge No. 10, Bedouin 
Shrine of Muskogee, the State Board of County Commissioners, and was a charter 
member of the Tenkiller Bass Club.

Dale is preceded in death by his parents.

He is survived by his wife, Ellen of the home; two children, Mark Mathews of 
Tahlequah and Kim Cooper of Fairplay, Colo.; one granddaughter, April of Fairplay, 
Colo.; sister, Norma Lee Partain of Charlottesville, Va.; and brother, Virgil James 
Mathews Jr. of Tempe, Ariz.; as well as a host of friends and loved ones.