Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

 

SBT 1/2/1973

Dale M. Brinley

October 10, 1910 - January 2, 1973

Dale M. Brinley, 65, of 3213 N. Bendix Dr., was dead on arrival at 10:21am today at Memorial Hospital of an apparent heart attack.  He retired from Drewrys Ltd. and until his death had been employed as a courtesy car driver for Wheel Horse Products.

He was born on October 10, 1907, in Goshen, and had lived here most of his life.  On January 20, 1934, in Fort Wayne, he married Beatrice Wilcox, who survives, along with two daughters, Mrs. Stephen Leaders of Colorado Springs CO and Miss Jo Ellen Brinley, at home.; two granddaughters; two brother, Cecil of Vandalia MI, and Wilson (Bill) of South Bend, and three sisters, Mrs. Bernice Sasse of Key West FL, Mrs. Ruth Connelly of Niles and Mrs. Maybelle Adams of South Bend.

Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9pm Thursday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home.  Mr. Brinley was a veteran of WW II.