Dale Bradley, 94, a Korean Conflict vet and retired printer, died March 24, 2023 at Willow Place Assisted Living in Newberg.

Dale was born in his family's home in the Willamette section of West Linn August 19, 1928.
He graduated from West Linn High School in 1946 and lived in West Linn until 1991, when he moved to Senior Estates in Woodburn. He moved to Newberg in 2018.

In 1955 he married Lula Mae Ellison and adopted her two-year old daughter Shirley, whose father passed when she was nine months old. Lula Mae, a 29-year employee of Crown Zellerbach, passed on April 7, 2013. They enjoyed couples bowling leagues and couples golf tournaments, and were members of Willamette Valley Country Club in Canby, Senior Estates Golf Club in Woodburn, and Sea Mountain Golf Club on the big island of Hawaii, where they vacationed many winters in retirement.

Dale began printing at the Banner-Courier in Oregon City, where he suffered the loss of the last digit of three fingers at age 15. He also worked 17 years at Metropolitan Printing as a typesetter and compositor, co-owned B and B Litho for one year, and worked as a production manager, estimator, and building partner for PEP Printing, which became Premier Press, for nine years of dramatic growth. He retired in 1988.

He was a tenor saxophonist in bands that played for school dances and military functions.

A veteran of the Korean Conflict, he served in Army intelligence as a photo interpreter 12 miles from the front line.

He was a master woodworker who repurposed a printing machine to produce hardwood cameo engravings.

He was preceded in death by sister Jean and brothers Lester and Robert. He is survived by sister Sandy Kaufman (Dennis), children Shirley Kyte of Newberg and Mark Bradley (Joy) of Vancouver, WA; grandchildren Heather Vergason (Dustin) and Shannon Kasch (Ryan) of Newberg, Jordan Bradley (Taylor) of Gresham, Bethany Wilson (Frank) of Pasadena, TX, Grace Klodt (Everett) and Josiah Bradley of Vancouver, WA; and great-grandchildren Lily, Brody, Brandy, Olivia, Kellen, Crew, and Kaia, and one on the way.