Mary Dalene Clouse Hatch

DALENE WAS BORN AUGUST 15, 1934 TO LORETTA AND EDWARD CLOUSE IN MARSHALL MISSOURI. DALENE PASSED AWAY AUGUST 5 DUE TO HEALTH COMPLICATIONS FROM LEUKIMIA AND COVID. SHE ATTENDED HIGH SCHOOL THERE AND CONTINUED HER EDUCATION IN PHYSICAL ED WHERE SHE RECEIVED HER MASTERS AND WENT ON TO RECECVE HER PHD IN COLORADO IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION . HER FIRST TEACHING JOB WAS IN OKINAWA FOR 4 YEARS AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO ICELAND FOR 1

YEAR. SHE THEN GOT TRANSFERRED TO RAMSTEIN GERMANY..DALENE WAS ATTENDING A PARTY WITH A FRIEND WHEN SHE MET GRANT HER HUSBAND AND THEY DATED FOR ALMOST 2 YEARS WHEN THEY DECIDED TO TIE THE KNOT WITH A GERMAN BERGERMEISTER OFFICIATING. DALENE BECAME AN INSTANT MOM WITH TODD ONE OF GRANTS SONS. SHE KNEW JUST WHAT TO DO AND IMMEDIATELY TOOK OVER. TOGETHER THEY SPENT SEVERAL YEARS AT RAMSTEIN AIRBASE AND CONTINUED A

WONDERFUL RELATIONSHIP. LATER THEY WOULD HAVE DUSTIN COME AND JOIN THEM, GRANTS OTHER SON. FROM GERMANY THEY WERE TRANSFERRED TO LAKESIDE ARIZONA WHERE SHE STARTED AND OPENED UP A WOOD CARVING SHOP AND SOLD HAND CARVED WOOD FIGURINES AND ORNAMENTS. GRANT HAD A FLYING SCHOOL AND CHARTER BUSINESS WITH TWO PLANES BUT LATER SOLD EVERYTHING

AFTER A FLYING ACCIDENT WITH A STUDENT AND THEY PACKED UP AND MOVED TO ANDREWS TEXAS WHERE THEY SPENT A SHORT TIME BEFORE MOVING TO CRESTVIEW FLORIDA. CRESTVIEW SEEMED LIKE HOME AND THEY BOUGHT A NICE LITTLE HOME IN KAMELA COURT WHERE THEY WOULD LIVE FOR OVER 40 YEARS.

DALENE AND GRANT DROVE TRUCK FOR NORTH AMERICAN VANLINES AFTER RETIRING FROM THE AIRFORCE .THEY DROVE TURCKS FOR OVER 10 YEARS IN WHICH SHE WAS THE COPILOT AND KEPT BOOKS AND GRANT DID THE DRIVING. THEY TRAVELED THE UNITED STATES WITH THEIR LITTLE COMPANIONS CHICA AND CHICHI AND WERE ABLE TO SEE ALOT OF FUN SITES. DALENE WAS A WONDERFUL MOTHER TO GRANTS THREE CHILDREN AND LOVED THEM LIKE HER OWN..SHE NEVER FORGOT A BIRTHDAY OR HOLIDAY OR SPECIAL OCCASION. HER THREE CHILDREN LOVED HER SO MUCH AS SHE WAS THEIR SPECIAL ANGEL. SHE ALSO LOVED HER GRAND CHILDREN AND

GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND NEVER PASSED UP AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEND THEM A DETAILED LETTER IN HERS AND GRANDPAS EXCURSIONS, TRAVELS AND LIFE..SHE WAS A WONDERFUL COOK AND LOVING COMPANION . THE TWO OF THEM NEVER FAUGHT AND CONTINUED TO SET A GREAT EXAMPLE ON MARRIAGE.

THEY VISITED HER FAMILIES CABIN IN MISSOURI ALOT AND WOULD SLEEP OVER IN THE CAR IF THE DRIVE WAS TO MUCH. DALENE AND GRANT WOULD ALSO PACK UP THEIR 5 TH WHEEL AND DRIVE DOWN TO KEYWEST AND STAY FOR A FEW MONTHS DURING THE WINTER MONTHS. THE TWO OF THEM WERE NEVER WITHOUT EACH OTHER BY THEIR SIDE. DALENE WAS VERY FOND OF ANIMALS AND ALWAYS MADE A POINT TO FEED THE BIRDS AND SQUIRRELS IN THEIR BACK YARD. HER FAVORITE LITTLE COMPANION WHOM SHE JUST LOVED WAS HER LITTLE CHIHUAHUA ANGEL. DALENE AND GRANT WOULD LATER RESUCE ANOTHER LITTLE CHIHUAHUA THAT THEY WOULD NAME WILLEY.. THEY WILL MISS THEIR MOM TERRIBLY AS WILL HER BELOVED

HUSBAND AND SWEETHEART GRANT. DALENE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND GRANT A HATCH, THREE CHILDREN, TODD HATCH, DUSTIN HATCH AND TRISTINA BOWN (BILL) TWO GRANDSONS, KODY OLSON (SABRINA) AND KERBY OLSON (ELLIE). 9 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, JADEN, KASH, KREW, KOHEN, ROCKWELL, KELLER, PRESLEY, TENLEY,KAMBELL.. SISTER IN LAW JOAN AND SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

DALENE IS PROCEEDED IN DEATH BY HER TWO PARENTS LORETTA AND EDWARD CLOUSE. DALENE ALSO IS PROCEEDED IN DEATH BY HER THREE BROTHERS.. WAYNE, LARRY AND CASEY AND TWO SISTER IN LAWS, GENE AND DAWNA.

A time of visitation will be held on Monday, August 14, 2023 from 10:00-11:00am at The Church of Jesus Christ of Ladder-Day Saints with the funeral service starting at 11:00am. Burial will follow at Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery.

Arrangements are entrusted to Whitehurst Powell Funeral Home in Crestview. Guest book and condolences are available online at www.whitehurstpowellfuneralhome.com

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