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May 4, 2021
RUTHVEN A visitation for Dale E. Oppedal was held Monday, May 3, at the Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Ruthven.
Private family graveside service will be held today, Tuesday, May 4, at Crown Hill Cemetery in Ruthven. The Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Ruthven is in charge of arrangements.
Dale Edward Oppedal was born in rural Walnut Township, Palo Alto County, on Aug. 24, 1926, to Iver and Zelda (Prichard) Oppedal. Three years later his father purchased a farm located one and one half miles north of Lost Island Lake. The farm would be Dale’s home for most of the remaining years of his life. It was a place he truly loved and one that he always sought to improve.
The Times-Reporter
I’m a news junkie. There’s no getting around it. The older I get, the more likely I will be found checking out the TV news channels and then watching the every five-minute repeats to see which spin each channel sends out.
My interest lies mainly in objectivity, something very few of the stations today practice. In my high school and college journalism classes, objectivity was unbreakable, unchangeable, unfailing law. If you wanted to pass the course, you never, I mean, NEVER, made anything up, expressed an opinion or reported something you couldn’t substantiate and attribute. Gone are the days. Most news channels today are more for entertainment than real news.