She was a 1921 graduate of Smith-Cotton High School and attended Central Missouri State Teachers College. She taught for a year at Sunnydell School near La Monte, before working in the office at Chasnoff’s Department Store until they closed. From 1926 to 1932, she worked at Third National Bank. In the 1940's, she worked for Mrs. Human’s Art Shop.
She was a lifelong Methodist and a member of Wesley United Methodist Church.
During Sedalia’s Centennial, she and her husband created and had published the book
Sedalia, Missouri, 100 Years in Pictures.
She was a member of Osage Chapter Daughters of American Revolution, Sedalia Garden Club and Pettis County Historical Society.
She enjoyed flowers, books, traveling, genealogy and playing bridge.
Surviving are a daughter, Millicent Hale, of Sedalia.
She was predeceased by two brothers, John L. Anderson and William H. Anderson; and two sisters, Marguerite A. Coon and Dorothy J. Warbritton.
Funeral services will be at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, August 10, 2006, at Heckart/Gillespie Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. Michael Lockhart officiating.
Pallbearers will be Dick Bradley, David Hood and Elwood Mather.
Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.
There will be no visitation.
Mabelle A. “Peg” Hale, 103, of Sedalia, died Monday, Aug. 7, 2006, at her home.
She was born April 28, 1903, in Sedalia, a daughter of John Lindsey and Jessie Cheatham Anderson. On May 18, 1928, in Muskogee, Okla., she was married to Leslie Lueking Hale, who died June 26, 1963.
