REV. DEWEY R. HALE

CAIRO, Ill. -- Rev. Dewey R. Hale, 46, of Nashville, Tenn., formerly of Cairo, died Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993, in Bolivar, Mo.

He was born Sept. 25, 1946, in Alexander County, son of Thomas and Susie Winemiller Hale. He and Evelyn Hagar were married May 20, 1967. She died May 26, 1991. He later married Kimberly Daniels Oct. 24, 1992, in Nashville.

Hale was a 1970 graduate of Southwest Baptist College. He taught school at Warsaw, Madison, South Shelby in Clarence, before accepting his current position at Lighthouse Christian Academy in Nashville. He was a member of Tusculum Hills Baptist Church in Nashville.

He has pastored churches at Warsaw, Ashmore, Mansfield and Morehouse, Mo., Cairo and Macon. While pastoring in Cairo, he served as a substitute teacher at a number of area schools. Hale also taught hunter safety classes for Missouri Department of Conservation in Randolph County.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Alan Hale of Bolivar, Aaron Hale of Cairo; six brothers, Thomas, James, Robert and Larry Hale of Thebes, Donald Hale of Tamms, Norman Hale of McClure; two sisters, Elizabeth Watson of Beebe, Ark., and Susan Baugher of Thebes.

Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Thebes, with the Revs. Don Slatton and Doug Westmoreland officiating. Burial will be in Home Cemetery at Perryville, Mo.

Friends may call at Cater Funeral Home in Moberly, Mo., from 4-8 p.m. today.