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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/28/2010 08:48 PM
Updated by: thepinetree on 04/30/2010 07:54 AM
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Celebration of Life for Dale Brooks~by John Hofstetter
Arnold, CA....On June 5th at 1:00 pm in the amphitheater of the Sierra Nevada Logging Museum in White Pines (Arnold) there will be a celebration of the life of Dale Brooks, great friend of the museum and his community. A tri-tip/chicken barbecue luncheon will be provided by the family and the museum. Dale was a wonderful asset to the museum as he had lived much of the history that the museum was created to preserve. His stories and accounts provide much of the material in the museum’s web site www.sierraloggingmuseum.org. ....
Dale’s father died when Dale was still very young, and his mother met a logger working for Doc Linebaugh, who later ran the logging operation that provided the logs for the Blagen Mill in White Pines.
In 1938, Doc moved the Blagen’s mill from Calpine to the newly created community of White Pines. Dale, his mother, and his step-father came to White Pines with Doc, and lived in Doc’s camp of temporary cabins and tents located where the museum and White Pines park are located now. They lived in a combination of two cabins and an attached tent. Dale attended the Avery School in White Pines and then Bret Harte High School. Dale and his family moved over into one of the permanent houses in White Pines when the logging camp was closed and the residents were forced to move by American Forest Products who had acquired the property. Dale, who had indicated in his high school prophecy that he wanted to be truck driver went to work for Doc and eventually ended up driving truck for Doc until the mill was closed in 1962.
Dale acquired a family of step-children (of a kind) and their mother who lived with Dale until her death 30 years later. The children regarded Dale as their dad, and he regarded them as his children. Those step-children gave Dale four grand-children, and they gave him five great-grand-children.
One of those step-children, Robert, lived close to Dale and watched over Dale in his later years. Dale proposed marriage a number of times to Barbara, Robert’s mother, but apparently Barbara never felt marriage was necessary, and based on their love and caring for each other, apparently it was not.
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