Class of 1954
1954 Maroon Spotlight
Dale Walls
Junior Play 52-53, Class Assembly 51-52, Perryscope Staff 53-54.
1954 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
Dale Walls will either enter college at Oklahoma A. & M. college, Stillwater, or enter the service following graduation this spring. He is the 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Walls, 910 Jackson street, and was born May 19, 1936, in Fairfax. He attended school in Gray horse and attended high school three semesters in Fairfax. Dale was a member of the honor society in his freshman year in Fairfax.
Dale Davis Walls
May 19, 1936 – Sept. 1, 2010
Dale Davis Walls, 74, went home to be with his Savior on Sept. 1, 2010, after a 4 year battle with cancer.
Born May 19, 1936 in Fairfax, Oklahoma, he was the son of Roy E. Walls and Ollie Thelma Walls. He was the 5th son of 7 boys. He grew up at Naval Reserve by Fairfax. He attended the Gray horse School on the Osage Reservation near Fairfax. He gave his heart to the Lord at an early age and was an active member in the Naval Reserve Baptist Church. In 1951, he moved to Perry, Oklahoma, where he graduated from Perry High School in 1954.
After graduation, he worked for Phillips Oil Co. In Borger and Dumas, Texas. In 1957 Dale was drafted into the Army where he served most of his enlistment in Washington State at Fort Lewis.
In 1959, he married the former Barbara Grubbs of Borger, Texas. They had 3 children, Danny Wayne, Vicki Lynn, and David Dale.
Dale was honorably discharged from the Army in 1960. After leaving the Army, the family moved back to Borger, Texas where Dale continued his work for Phillips Petroleum. In 1964, he and his family moved to the Dallas, Texas area. He worked for Texas Instruments for almost 35 years. He was in the Facility Department and later as a contractor at Texas Instruments. He was a very faithful employee of TI and almost called it his second home. After retirement, he always kept in contact with his friends and fellow workers.
In 1995, Dale married the former Kathy Feuerbacher. Dale grew to love Kathy’s sons as his own. Brad and Chad Feuerbacher.
Preceding him in death were his parents and two brothers, R.D. and Kenneth.
He is survived by his wife Kathy of Plano, Texas; his children: Danny Walls of Wylie, Texas, Vicki Walls Hamby of Wylie, Texas, David Walls of Irving Texas, Brad and his wife Cecile Feuerbacher of Plano, Texas, and Chad and his wife Cheri Feuerbacher of Rockwall, Texas. In addition, he is survived by 12 Grandchildren, 9 Great Grandchildren and 4 brothers.
Memorial Service will be Saturday, Sept 18, 2010, at 2:p.m.at The First Baptist Church in Wylie, Texas.