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Dale Young Collecting Friends Along
t was 68 years ago that
Dale Young received a
Iletter from the United
States Government. It read,
“Greetings and Salutations.
You have been selected,
along with millions of
others, to join the U.S. Army.
Congratulations.” Dale
soon traveled to California,
Japan, and Korea where
he experienced learning
about the infantry and
marksmanship and driving
for a colonel during the
Korean War. They were two
years of lean meals and cold
shivers, trying to get warm in
the frigid climate of Korea; it
was even colder than Texas
in a snow blizzard whipped
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up by the West their local church. When
Texas winds. they moved back to town,
they allowed a couple of the
Dale was born children, who wanted a new
January 25, 1931 home, to move with them.
in Estacado,
Texas. Later, his Dale has spent most of his
family moved life reaching out to others.
into Lorenzo, He has purchased many
where they lived sets of tires for various
for several years, automobiles, cars and
before moving to pickups for his friends;
Lubbock. Dale was he feeds the hungry and
still in high school helps his neighbors. Dale
when his dad and his wife, Bobbye, treat
passed away from groups of friends and
a heart attack, so relatives to dinner every
he had to grow up Friday night. Dale also
fast. He quit school delivers Meals on Wheels
so he could help to four senior families
his mother manage weekly. He considers it a
a household and blessing to serve Lubbock
pay the bills. and his community. He
Dale’s parents also supports the South
were both very giving and Plains Food Bank, University
loving and had taught Dale Medical Center with an
and his brother always to Endowment, Lubbock
share whatever they had Christian University
with others. Dale sold Educational Endowment,
paint to local builders and and Sunset Church of Christ.
later entered the real estate
business, where he sold Dale’s business manager
stated that few people have
houses and, later, farms and friends like Dale does. His
ranches for over 30 years. friendship base was built
Dale and his wife, Lou, before technology, and
opened their home to several therefore, he developed
homeless young people. At
many close, personal friends.
one point, Dale, Lou and Weekly, he is visited by
their daughter, Tracy, sold
multiple folks who have
their home and moved to the been his friends for 40-65
Lubbock Children’s Home
years. He loves his old
to serve as cottage parents at stories and jokes that were
the request of an elder from
fun entertainment before the