Dallas Lee Pals (2017)
PALS, LEE, KAYE
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 2/19/2017 at 09:03:36
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 15, 2017DALLAS PALS, Thornton, Ia
Dallas Lee Pals, 79, of Thornton, Iowa, died Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, at the Muse Norris Inpatient Hospice in Mason City, Iowa, after his victory over cancer.
Funeral services were held Monday, Feb. 13, at First United Methodist Church in Thornton, with burial at Evergreen Cemetery in Britt.
Dallas was born June 8, 1937, to Elmer and Marcele Paals in rural Meservey, Iowa. He was a graduate of Meservey High School in 1954 and Westmar College in 1958. He taught and coached in Pocahontas, South Clay, Winterset, Meservey-Thornton and CAL, before returning to the farm.
Dallas married Katherine (Kaye) Lee on June 10, 1962, they had five children. Dallas was a teacher, and also coached basketball and softball, but softball was his favorite sport. He retired from coaching at age 74 and was inducted into the Iowa Softball Coaches Hall of Fame in 2006. At the time of his death, two of his children and a granddaughter followed in his footsteps - teaching and coaching. Dallas and Kaye returned to the family farm in 1977 when his parents retired. He saw the farm become a Century Farm in 1993 and continued farming until his retirement at age 75.
He was preceded in death by his son, Jeff; his parents, Elmer and Marcele Pals; his father and mother-in-law, Norman and Bernice Lee, his sister-in-law, Carla Pals;and several aunts and uncles.
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