DALE LONG
ALLEN-Services for Dale Eugene Long, 76, Allen, are 2:00 p.m. Saturday, September 15, 2012 at the Bethel Free Will Baptist Church in Allen, Rev. Lonnie Palmer will officiate. Burial will follow at the Allen Cemetery. Friends and family may call at the Allen Chapel from 4:00 p.m. Friday until service time Saturday.
Mr. Long died Thursday, September 13, 2012 at a Norman hospital. He was born April 7, 1936 in Holdenville, Oklahoma to Sidney Lee and Lois Dodson Long. He attended grade school at Round Prairie, near Holdenville and graduated from Allen High School in 1954.
He married Violet Rhea Prentice on September 10, 1956 in Allen, Oklahoma. Mr. Long was employed as a loader with Suntide Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas in November 1956. He was transferred to Goldsby-Chriner in 1968 as a pumper and to Allen in October of 1974. Mr. Long retired from Oryx Energy in December of 1992. He was a longtime member of the Bethel Free Will Baptist Church and had served in the U. S. Army from August 1954 until being honorably discharged August 1956.
Survivors include his wife, Violet Long, of the home; three daughters, Pam Irwin and her husband Danny of Purcell, Tammy Freeman and her husband Joe of Johnstown, CO, and Jessica Plunk and her husband Bruce of Ada; five grandchildren, Holly (Irwin) and Jason Sapp, Oklahoma City, Caleb Irwin, Norman, Allie Plunk, Allen, Clay Plunk, Ada, and Ethan Freeman, Johnstown, CO; one great grandchild, Logan Dale Sapp, Oklahoma City; and an adopted sister, Brenda McDonald.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Bearers will be his sons-in-law, Danny Irwin, Joe Freeman and Bruce Plunk; and his grandsons, Caleb Irwin, Clay Plunk and Ethan Freeman. Honorary bearers will be Robert Hammonds, Danny McDougal, Bill Griffin, Charles Henry, Ed Prentice, Benny Prentice and Tom Gault.
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Criswell Funeral Home, Ada