Dale Tuttle, a 91-year-old resident of Gallatin, died on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011 at the North Care Hospice House in North Kansas City.
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Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 at McWilliams Funeral Home in Gallatin. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery at Hamilton.
Family visitation will be one hour prior to service at the funeral home. Open visitation begins after 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011.
Mr. Tuttle was born on Dec. 5, 1919 on the family farm near Kidder, the son of Fred and Nellie Streeter Tuttle. He graduated from Penney High School. He married Doris Kinne and the couple moved to a farm west of Breckenridge, where he began his life-long vocation of farming. They were the parents of three daughters, Delores, Dixie and Debra. The Tuttle family moved just north of Breckenridge to a farm in Daviess County, where they raised livestock and did row crop farming. He and his family were active in farming, showing horses, 4-H activities, and school events and he especially enjoyed basketball events.
Mr. Tuttle served on the Breckenridge school board and belonged to the Breckenridge, Hamilton and Gallatin saddle clubs. While a member of the Hamilton Saddle Club, he participated in the 100-year centennial of the Pony Express re-enactment in 1960 by traveling on horse to Salt Lake City, UT. Besides horses, he enjoyed having his family and friends together to play pitch or dominoes and he was also an avid square dancer.
Mr. Tuttle was married on Feb. 20, 1965 in Breckenridge to Mary Evans Wesley. They were parents of a daughter, Dawn. The family moved a few years later to a farm south of Gallatin where they continued to farm and raise cattle. In 2009, he sold the farm and moved to Trenton.
Mr. Tuttle is survived by his daughters, Delores Kuttler of Trenton, Dixie Dawson of Manhattan Beach, CA, Debra McComas of Ojai, CA and Dawn Smith of Kansas City; step-daughters, Diana Holt of Breckenridge and Karen Jones of Gallatin; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Mary in 2006, three brothers and four sisters.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Gallatin Booster Club or Sunnyview Nursing Home and Apartments, in care of the funeral home at 1329 W. Grand, Gallatin, MO 64640.