BETHEL – Dale Everett Smith died unexpectedly on Wednesday, March 16.

He was born in Norway, June 20, 1957, the son of the late Lewis and Janice (Stearns) Smith.

Dale graduated from Telstar High School in 1976, at which time he went to work for Smith and Son Lumber Company as a sawyer. After the company’s closing, he worked for L.E. Davis Lumber Company, where he earned his NELMA lumber grader certification, his scaling license and served as the mill planer operator and sawyer. In 1986, he accepted a position for White Mountain Lumber Company as a sawyer and mill foreman where he was employed for 19 years. In December of 2004, Dale retired from White Mountain Lumber Company to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a cosmetologist. At the time of his death he was attending Bernard’s School of Hair Fashion, Inc.

As a one-of-a-kind husband and father, Dale enjoyed spending time with the Cub Scouts as a Weeblo leader, attending his children’s school sporting events, hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, ice fishing, bow hunting, deer hunting and boating with his wife, Linda. He also enjoyed gardening, carpentry and watching NASCAR races whenever possible.

In recent years, Dale and Linda started a small maple syrup business called Morning Star Maple, where they produced such products as maple syrup and sugar. In the summer of 2004, they visited Alaska where they toured for three weeks.

Dale is survived by his wife of 26 years Linda (Hamel) Smith; his mother Janice (Stearns) Hill of Bethel; his brother, Jeffery Smith of Los Angeles; one son, Jeremy Smith, of Gilead; three daughters, Audrey Thibodeau of Santa Fe, Amanda and her husband, Fred Curtis, of Greenwood, and Candi Smith of Bethel; his grandchildren, Felicia and Akayla Curtis of Greenwood, Dakota Smith of Gilead, and Logan Whitney of Bethel; his in-laws, Kenneth and Georgianna Hamel of Albany, Albert and Rose Sumner of Rochester, Ken and Valerie Hamel of Albany, Phyllis Davis of Westbrook, Keith and Marilyn Hamel of Bethel; and many nieces, nephews and friends.

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