Dale Arthur Sargent, 81

Dale Arthur Sargent, 81, passed away at the Mountain View Home in Bonners Ferry, on July 8, 2011.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 16, 2011, in the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home with interment in the McArthur Cemetery at Naples.

Dale was born on September 6, 1929, to Arthur and Ruth Sargent in the Bonners Ferry Hospital.

He received his education at a school in Highland Flats and then graduated from Bonners Ferry High School in 1947. After graduation, Dale worked for his father and then joined the Army, serving from 1950 to 1953 in Oklahoma, Japan and Korea.

After returning to Naples Dale worked for 20 years as a foreman and assistant manager of the Kokanee Cedar Sales Mill in Naples. Later he worked as a cedar fence broker for 10 years before retiring in the early 1990's. He continued to manage his farm, removing dead and down timber.

Throughout his life Dale love hunting especially Elk in the Lochsa area west of Missoula, Mont. He started the Elk Unlimited Chapter for Boundary County and annual big horn show.

He had a great love of the land and nature. His land was placed in a conservation easement so the land could provide wildlife habitat and timber growing without development.

Survivors include a nephew David Stern of Otis Orchards, Wash., niece Lorrie Sherod of Spokane, Wash., four grand-nieces and three grand-nephews.

Family and friends are invited to sign Dale's book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com Arrangements are entrusted to Bonners Ferry Funeral Home.