    {"id":8185,"date":"2017-02-20T12:54:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=8185"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:39:16","slug":"obituary-dale-henry-leon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=8185","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Dale, Henry Leon &#8220;Grady&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1956_Dale_Leon.jpg\" alt='Henry Leon \"Grady\" Dale' \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1956<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1956 Maroon Spotlight<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1956_Dale_Leon_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Leon Dale\" \/><br \/>Leon Dale<\/h2>\n<p>Basketball, F.F.A.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Henry Leon &#8220;Grady&#8221; Dale<\/h1>\n<h3>December 27, 1939 &#8211; February 15, 2017<\/h3>\n<p>Henry Leon \u201cGrady\u201d Dale, 77, passed away on Wednesday, February 15, 2017, at his home in Perry. <\/p>\n<p>Born on December 27, 1939, in Guthrie, OK, he was the son of James D. Dale Jr. and Aletha Adkins. He grew up in Perry and went to Blaine High School and Perry High School. After high school he joined the United States Navy. <\/p>\n<p>He married Cherlyn Hall on September 3, 1987, in Stillwater, Ok.<\/p>\n<p>Leon was a huge car enthusiast and enjoyed working on cars. He owned and operated Dale\u2019s Auto for 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Preceding him in death were his father James D. Dale, Jr. and mother Aletha Adkins and one brother Harold Dale.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his wife, Cherlyn K. Dale; his children, Vincent Dale and his wife Carey, Kelly Dale, Chris Dale and his wife Melissa, Melody Breedlove, Matt Mitchell and his wife Cindy and Mark Mitchell. He is also survived by eleven grandchildren, Bryan Tull, Cody Tull, Payton Dale, Ashton Mitchell, Drake Dale, Niara Howard, Dalton Mitchell, Jersey Mitchell, Brandon Breedlove, Courtney Breedlove, and Evan \u201cBoog\u201d Dale and one great grandchild, Jaxon Tull.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26984,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8185\/revisions\/26984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}