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- The Eugene Register-Guard, Sunday, October 14, 2012
Dale Bessett
YONCALLA - A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at Yoncalla Community Center for Dale Albert Bessett of Yoncalla, who died Oct. 11 of a stroke. He was 80.
He was born Oct. 7, 1932, in Seaside to Pete Bessett and Jerry Mortenson Holt. He married Alta Deel on Aug. 31, 1957, in Bend.
He attended high school in Salem and MapleŽton, and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1958. He served in the Army in the early 1950s. He was the owner of Yoncalla Food Center from 1958 through 1972 and a rock crushing business from 1972 through 1988.
Survivors include his wife; three sons, Mark of Escondido, Calif., Michael of Dallas, Texas, and Matthew of Vancouver, Wash.; a brother, Jack of Eugene; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Arrangements by Andreason's Cremation & Burial Service in Springfield. Remembrances to the North Douglas BetterŽment of Yoncalla or a church of choice.
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