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- The Herald Journal (Logan, UT)
December 11, 2005
Rodney S. Dahle was born Feb. 21, 1928, to John LaVere Dahle and Christina Nell Hendricks Dahle in Clarkston, Utah. He died Dec. 8, 2005, at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City of complications following heart surgery. He married Donna Van Orden on March 21, 1946. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Logan LDS Temple.
Rod grew up in Clarkston. He spent most of his adult life in Lewiston, Utah, where he started a plumbing & heating business in 1966 and was active in his business working along side his sons Dennis and John for many years building Dahle Heating & Plumbing into a very successful business.
His three greatest loves in life was family, horses and work in that order. He was active in the appaloosa and quarter horse racing associations and was a very successful and well-known horse owner and trainer. His favorite horse was named "Silver," but he had many others he was very fond of. And his horses loved him as well, often whinnying as they heard him coming towards the barn. His horses won many races in the intermountain region. He was named horse owner, with his IA RA horse of the year "Silver" in 1998.
He is survived by his wife, Donna; and brother, Val (Lorna); children, Dennis Dahle of Lewiston, Janet (Michael) Bosen of Preston, Idaho, Becky (August) Miller of Bountiful, Utah, and John Dahle of Lewiston; five grandsons; four granddaughters; and five great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his sister; two brothers; his daughter, Sherrie Jackson; and a grandson, Craig Reaves.
Interment will be in Lewiston City Cemetery, Lewiston, Utah.
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