Dale Keith Adamson
October 6, 1939 ~ February 1, 2017
Dale Keith Adamson
Dale Keith Adamson was born October 6, 1939 at Porter Hospital in Denver, Colorado to Milo and Dollie Adamson and entered into his heavenly home Feb 1, 2017 at the age of 77 after a long battle with Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson.
During his early years, Dale and his sister Janis traveled with their parents to several military bases where their father worked. This included Cheyenne, WY, Mountain View, ID and Camp Pando near Leadville, CO. They later moved to Englewood were he attended Hawthorne elementary, Flood Junior High and graduated from Englewood High School in 1958.
He worked for his father at Adamson Construction, starting as a child sweeping floors and later helped his father with building and remodeling of homes. After the death of his father, he did carpentry work. It was said, with enough time, he could figure out how to take anything apart and fix it.
He enjoyed spending time with his family and friends. As his disease progressed communication was difficult for him and for us to understand him. In 2014, he said "Lord you are showing me in so many ways how to trust you Jesus. Everyday is a new challenge for me." His greatest desire is that everyone would have a relationship with his heavenly father as he did.
In 1959 he married Kay Patterson and they had three children, Brian, Roger and Kelli.
In 1990 he married Betty Hayes and added 3 step children to his family.
He was preceded in death by his parents, an infant brother and his wife Kay.
He is survived by his wife Betty, his sons Brian (Gena) and Roger, his daughter Kelli and his granddaughter Kassandra. His step children Glenn (LeaAnn), Nancy (Dave) and Carrie (Jim). His step grandchildren, Andy (Megan), Joshua, Ebony, Nathan, David, Jordan, Kara (Chris) and Kami. A step great-grandson, Micah. His sister, Janis (Eldon), his uncle, Dearl, his nephews Steve (Janet) and Tim (Kathy) his niece Cindy, several cousins and many special friends.
In lieu of flowers, donations are requested for the Missions Department at Englewood Bible Church.
Family and friends are encouraged to share stories and photographs of Dale here on his website (click appropriate tab on the left side of this page).
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Kelli,
My deepest condolences to you and you family in the loss of your Father. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
Love you Dad.
My father-in-law was a kind, warm and generous person.
He would stop what he was doing to discuss the Bible or the U.S. Constitution to anyone that wanted to listen. I did learn early on in my marriage not to bring up the subject of the IRS. He had very strong opinions on the role of government.
He loved any occasion that allowed him to spend time with his sister and her family and his family. He loved to just get in the car and take a drive in the mountains.
He loved sweets and always had room for ice cream, cookies, pie and especially chocolate. He had defective taste buds because he liked black licorice.
He loved to help with projects or get help with projects. Brian would get a call from his Dad and one of the first things he would say is "Brian, I got myself into another pickle". They would spend hours figuring out how to solve the issue.
He was a charmer. Once day after I picked him up and was taking him to our house for dinner, he said to me " it is not right for an able bodied man to be in the car while a women drove" and than he turned to me with a smile and said "but you are a good driver." Many times he would pick up your hand and give it a kiss, even the nurses after they had taken his blood.
Brian and I feel fortunate that we had the opportunity to care for him.
Dale was always kind to us and I enjoyed the times that we were able to spend with him. Our condolences to his family. May he rest in peace.