Patton, Dale LeRoy

Dale LeRoy Patton, 90, died at the Good Neighbor Home in Manchester on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010. Visitation: 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at Leonard-Muller Funeral Home & Crematory in Manchester. Celebration of Life services: 1:30 p.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church, Manchester, with the Rev. Michael Manaugh officiating. Inurnment: 11 a.m. Saturday, Oakland Cemetery, Manchester.

Dale was born on the family farm near Ehler on Oct. 6, 1920, the second son of David S. and Bessie (Hunter) Patton. He graduated from Coggon High School in 1938. In 1951, he completed a six months herdsman program at Iowa State College.

Dale and Mary Jane Carrothers, of rural Masonville, married in 1942. They farmed what became the Patton Century Farm in Adams Township near Ryan and had five children. Mary Jane and their youngest child, Candice Sue, died in October 1964 as the result of a car accident. In 1965, Dale married Mary Eliza (Wilson) Preussner, who had three children, and they moved to Manchester in 1969.

Dale was a Delaware County supervisor for 13 years, retiring in 1976. Dale was a trained EMT, a 50-year member of the Masons, and a past president of the Delaware County Farm Bureau and the Ryan Lions Club. As a longtime member of First Presbyterian Church, Manchester, he served as elder, trustee, deacon and choir member. Dale received several conservation awards and enjoyed woodworking and storytelling.

Survivors include his children, Jo Ann Veith of Lake Wylie, S.C., Douglas (Suzanne) Preussner of Idaho Falls, Idaho, James (Diane) Patton of Rockwell City, Sandra (Glenn) Hodge of Harrisonburg, Va., Beverly Patton of Huntley, Ill., David Patton of Dubuque and Mark (Emily) Patton of Wilton; 15 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and sisters-in-law, Maxine Patton and Mazie Wilson of Marion, Ilene Carrothers Fetzer of Yuma, Ariz., and Louise Carrothers Barbe of Kansas City, Mo.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mary Jane; their daughter, Candice; his second wife, Mary Eliza; his brother, Kenneth; son-in-law, Chuck Veith; and daughter-in-law, Sue Patton.

Memorials may be made to the Good Neighbor Home, Camp Courageous, or First Presbyterian Church in Manchester.