{"id":1131,"date":"2013-01-03T18:26:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2013-01-04T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T20:18:10","slug":"roland-d-hale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Roland D. Hale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Roland D. Hale \u2013 82 \u2013 formerly of Hamilton Hill Rd., Alfred Station, died Sunday afternoon (December 30, 2012) in Chicago, IL, where he has resided for the past 3 years.<\/p>\n

Born in Oakfield, NY on May 24, 1931, he was the son of Edward & Eda (Bossler) Hale.<\/p>\n

Roland grew up in Oakfield and was a graduate of Oakfield High School (class of 1947).\u00a0 He attended Buffalo State College for 1 year before enlisting in the US Navy.\u00a0 He served his country for 4 years during the Korean Conflict before being honorably discharged.<\/p>\n

Following his discharge from the US Navy, Roland returned to Buffalo State College where he earned his Teaching Degree and also a Degree in Chemistry & General Science.\u00a0 He later earned his Master\u2019s Degree in Chemistry.<\/p>\n

Roland began his teaching career at Richburg High School in Richburg, NY where he taught Science.\u00a0\u00a0 While teaching at Richburg, he met his future wife, Patricia Cline who was a music teacher at the school.\u00a0 For about 30 years, Roland taught chemistry at SUNY Alfred.\u00a0 Following his retirement from teaching, he established a business operating an environmental testing laboratory testing soil & water.\u00a0 He operated the laboratory until 2007.<\/p>\n

He was a member of Our Lady of the Valley Parish and a communicant of St. Ann\u2019s Church.\u00a0 He was a member of the American Chemical Society and the Baker\u2019s Bridge Historical Association.\u00a0 Roland loved working in both his flower garden and vegetable garden and also planting trees.\u00a0 He enjoyed his many years working on his farm and tending to his cows, chickens, goats & dogs.\u00a0 He also loved taking his daily walks.<\/p>\n

Roland was married on April 24, 1957 to the former Patricia Cline who died in 2005.\u00a0 He was preceded in death by his son-in-law, Khalid Ashraf who died in 2007 and his grandson, John Dye who died in 2011.<\/p>\n

Surviving are 3 daughters, Mary (Dale) Ashraf Pena of Victor, Ann (Gary) Dye of Hornell and Lisa (Brooks) Crankshaw of Chicago, IL; 3 grandchildren, Courtney (Bob Myers) Ashraf of Alfred, Danielle Dye of Hornell and Aline Crankshaw of Chicago, IL; several brothers, sisters, nieces & nephews.<\/p>\n

At Roland\u2019s request there will be no calling hours.\u00a0 Family & friends are invited to attend a Memorial Mass on Monday at 11:00 AM at St. Ann\u2019s Church with Fr. Paulinus Okpala and Deacon Robert McCormick officiating.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roland\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his name be made to either the Allegany County Office of the Aging, 6085 St. Rt. 19North, Belmont, NY 14813 or the Baker\u2019s Bridge Historical Association, PO Box 13, Alfred Station, NY 14803.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roland D. Hale \u2013 82 \u2013 formerly of Hamilton Hill Rd., Alfred Station, died Sunday afternoon (December 30, 2012) in Chicago, IL, where he has resided for the past 3 years. Born in Oakfield, NY on May 24, 1931, he was the son of Edward & Eda (Bossler) Hale. Roland grew up in Oakfield and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}