Dale Howard Teasley

I knew Dale years back. Back then he had a very calm demeanor to the point of indifference, if you didn't know any better.
He was an Army Corporal specialist in artillery at a very young age. After discharge from the army, Dale Worked several years in a Detroit collision shop owned by his father. Found his artistic talent in custom paint jobs for automobiles. Then moved to redesigning corvettes, other fiberglass vehicles. He used lace to custom paint a band around the trunk area...

There Were These Three Summers, in a row, (it was after i was a little older, in my teens, but before i started high school) he would pick me up from my moms. hand me a map. "okay we have $300 dollars and a full tank of gas. where we going?" so the first place i pointed at was Sleepy Bear Dunes. and then to the iron mines in iron Mountain. and we camped out in all the places one could along Michigan west coast. the 2nd trip we started at the campgrounds in one of the Indian Reservation sites...

I would like to say that Dale and I had many interesting conversations during a lunch or at one of his many jobs mostly after our retirements. he was always interesting to me. he would take one side of the topic and defend it vigorously and then switch over to the other side of the topic. He would raise his eyebrows and get this blank look on his face with his mouth open slightly. I would end up switching and totally defend the position he started with. That is when I would see him smile and...