Audio Tribute to Tommy Dale, Jr.
Link to obituary as well as link to view his funeral service
Special News Report: Tribute to Tommy Dale, Jr. From our broadcast script:
IT IS A TOUGH DAY FOR MR. DALE’S FAMILY, AND IT IS FOR US HERE AT WIZS TOO. OVER THE YEARS, MR. TOMMY DALE PROVIDED HIS CRAFT AND EXPERTISE TO WIZS BOTH FOR PAY AND IN KINDNESS. HE WAS A MASTER AT FIXING ANYTHING ELECTRONIC, ESPECIALLY RF EQUIPMENT, WHICH, OBVIOUSLY, RADIO STATIONS ARE 100 PERCENT RELIANT ON IN SOME FORM OR ANOTHER. MR. DALE WAS ALSO HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL AT PROVIDING HENDERSON AND VANCE COUNTY WITH NEEDED EQUIPMENT, EXPERTISE AND KINDNESS TO KEEP 2-WAY COMMUNICATIONS OPEN, ESPECIALLY IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT PAST WHEN THINGS WERE NOT SO HIGH TECH, FAR MORE CUMBERSOME AND JUST GENERALLY A PAIN AT TIMES FOR SURE. LIVES HAVE BEEN SAVED BY HIS KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY TO APPLY PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRONICS AND RF AND MORE THAN LIKELY ALSO BY THE TIMES OF DETERMINATION OF MAKING SOMETHING WORK. A FIRE TRUCK, AMBULANCE OR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WHO CAN’T COMMUNICATE, CAN’T GET TO THE SCENE, LOSES TIME, AND IS HIMSELF OR HERSELF IN DANGER…NOT TO MENTION THE ONES NEEDING THE HELP. MR. DALE’S TALENTS, OF WHICH I HAVE OBSERVED FIRST HAND IN HIS SHOP AND AT WIZS, WERE REMARKABLE AND OBVIOUSLY A GIFT FROM GOD, WHICH MR. DALE OBVIOUSLY RECOGNIZED, AND NURTURED AND ENHANCED AND GREW. HE GREW HIS POTENTIAL AND HE PROVIDED THAT POTENTIAL TO OTHERS. I LOVED HIS DRY WIT. HE WAS A MESS, BUT HE WAS A GOOD MESS. WHEN MY DAD DIED 12 YEARS AGO, I REMEMBER THINKING MORE THAN ONCE AND DOING SO MORE THAN ONCE…AT LEAST I CAN CALL MR. DALE. MY CALL TODAY IS TO YOU MY FRIENDS. MY FRIEND MR. TOMMY DALE HELPED THE RADIO STATION YOU’RE LISTENING TO MANY TIMES AND IN A LOVING WAY. PLEASE REMEMBER HIM, HIS LIFE, HIS FAMILY, HIS COMMUNITY AND FRIENDS TODAY. MAY THE LOVE OF OUR GOD THE FATHER, WITH THE PEACE FROM CHRIST THE SON AND THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BLESS AND ACCEPT OUR BROTHER AND BE WITH HIS FAMILY.
Mr. Dale and wife, Elizabeth