Richard Dale Cole

RICHARD DALE COLE, 86, OF ODESSA, PASSED AWAY AT MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2025. AS PER DALE’S WISHES, THERE WILL BE NO VISITATION AND A GRAVESIDE SERVICE WILL BE ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2026, 10:00 AM, AT SUNSET MEMORIAL GARDENS. WITH REVEREND DR. JIMMY BRASWELL OFFICIATING.

DALE WAS BORN ON JULY 9, 1939, IN OHIO TO PARENTS RICHARD WAYNE COLE AND SUSIE ELISE COLE. DALE GRADUATED FROM MIDLAND HIGH SCHOOL AND SPENT A BRIEF TIME IN SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

DALE MARRIED HIS FIRST WIFE SALLY AND THEY LIVED IN ODESSA. HE WAS A SALESMAN FOR VINSON SUPPLY FOR MANY YEARS UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT. WHEN SALLY PASSED AWAY DUE TO A HEART CONDITION, HE MET AND LATER MARRIED HIS SECOND WIFE, MOLLY MAE HUBBARD IN JANUARY OF 2007 WITH JUSTICE OF THE PEACE EDDIE SPIVEY OFFICIATING. DALE AND MOLLY HAD WORKED TOGETHER WHILE AT VINSON WITH DALE SRVING AS A SALEMAN AND MOLLY IN ACCOUNTS. DALE ALSO SERVED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT COMPLEX COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION FOR MANY YEARS. DALE AND MOLLY TOOK NUMEROUS TRIPS TO CREDIT UNION MEETINGS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. THEY VISITED ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY AND SAW THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD THERE TWICE.DALE WAS ALSO AN AVID BOW HUNTER, SHOOTING MANY DEER AND EVEN A BEAR WITH HIS BOW. HE ALSO PARTICIPATED IN MANY ARCHERY SHOOTING CONTESTS AND WAS A PROLIFIC BOW SHOOTER.

DALE IS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, HIS FIRST WIFE SALLY, SECOND WIFE MOLLY AND HIS DEAR FRIEND ROSIE. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS BROTHER BYRON, STEP SON KYLE HUBBARD AND WIFE SANDRA, STEP GRANDCHILDREN NATHAN HUBBARD, LANE HUBBARD AND WIFE KAITY ALONG WITH STEP GRANDAUGHTER SORA, SPECIAL FRIENDS BOB CARLTON, DALE AND JEWELL BREWER, LARRY EADS AND SEVERAL BOARDS MEMBERS FROM COMPLEX COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION.

HONORARY PALLBEARERS WILL BE BOB CARLTON, DALE BREWER, LARRY EADS, NATHAN HUBBARD, LANE HUBBARD, KYLE HUBBARD, DIETER BORDNER, AND COLE BORDNER

MEMORIALS CA BE GIVEN TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, THE ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION, OR CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE.

SERVICES ARE ENTRUSTED TO SUNSET MEMORIAL GARDENS AND FUNERAL HOME.