Newspaper Abstracts, Alaska
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- Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska, 12 May 2010, p B-2
There will be a celebration of life for Dale Sackett at 7 p.m., Monday, May 17, at Bethel Church on Farmers Loop.
On Jan. 11, 2010, Dale left the pain of the cancer he had been battling behind and went to be with his heavenly father.
Dale was born in Aug. 2, 1942, in Dodge Center, Minn., to Lloyd and Gazelle (Dutton) Sackett. Dale's childhood was spent looking through the sights of a .22 rifle as he cruised the woods looking for live targets.
When he was 9, the family moved to Park Rapids, Minn., where Dale lived until 1960 when he graduated from high school. Dale was a good wrestler and wrestled on the Park Rapids high school team and went to the state tournament. He joined the Navy at 17 and soon found himself overseas and far from home.
After the Navy, he returned to the Dodge Center area where he met and married the love of his life, Connie (Vangness) Sackett. They were married in Harmony Caves in 1964, where his brother Jim Sackett and his wife Mary Jo stood as their best man and bridesmaid. It wasn't long before Dale and Connie had a couple of boys, Jim and Chad.
Dale entered the lineman apprentice program to become a power lineman. Dale worked for GVEA, CVEA, and other electrical contractors through Local 1547. Dale moved the family to Park Rapids again where Dale honed his lineman skills until one day answering the call to come to Alaska.
Dale had an adventurous streak and Alaska seemed like just the right thing, so they moved to Nenana in 1970. Dale worked the rest of his working days as a lineman in various locations around Alaska including the North Slope, Fairbanks, Cantwell, Juneau, Delta and Glennallen.
Upon retirement, Dale and Connie moved to Nevis, Minn., to a retirement home they had built
22 years earlier. Dale and Connie soon found themselves snow-birding to Arizona in the winters and quickly developed a new set of friends from their park in Arizona. Dale loved God, his family, hunting, fishing, playing cards and jokes.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Lloyd and Gazelle Sackett; and his brother, Larry Sackett.
He is survived by his loving wife of more than 45 years, Connie Sackett; his sons and daughters-in-law, Jim and Cheryl of Fairbanks and Chad and Jackee of Forest Lake, Minn.; grandchildren, Sarah, Timothy, Abigail, Benjamin and Anna; his brother, Jim Sackett; and his sister, June Patterson.
Dale will be remembered for his wit and intelligence.
[Transcribed from Find a Grave by Chris Sackett]
