May 30, 1925 – June 26, 2019
Dale was born in Toledo, Ohio, the fifth child and youngest son of William Walter Burand and Edythe Minnie Boelter Burand, who were first generation American - born children of immigrants from Prussia.
He enlisted in the Navy May 27, 1943, where he was trained as a photographer's mate. He was assigned to the Pacific Theater on the cruiser U.S.S. Ancon.
He took and developed many very well known photos, including the invasion of Okinawa, before and after views of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, as well as the signing of the surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri.
Dale married Vera May Kelly of Okmulgee, Oklahoma May 7, 1948 in Davenport, Iowa, where they both graduated from the Palmer School of Chiropractic in 1949. While in Davenport they welcomed their first child, Donald Joe. They moved to Mobile, AL for a short time before moving to Del City, Oklahoma, and eventually settled down in a rural part of Oklahoma 29 miles South East of Oklahoma City in 1956.
Dale practiced Chiropractic Health Care in Midwest City, Oklahoma for approximately 15 years. He ultimately went to work for the Post Office, from which he retired.
Dale is survived by his son, Donald of Anchorage Alaska, daughters Barbara Brewer of Newalla, Oklahoma, Rebecca Burand of Oklahoma City, grandchildren Charles Brewer of Midwest City, Oklahoma, Sarah Brewer of Oklahoma City, DJ Burand of Anchorage Alaska, Laura Brewer of Midwest City, Oklahoma, great grandchildren Kelsey and Blaire Brewer of Midwest City.
Dale found many ways to show just how much he cared about every single person he knew and ever met. He was a son, a brother, a loving father and husband. He cherished being a grandfather and great grandfather. He showed his love in ways of teaching, helping, and mentoring. Dale was a full library of knowledge and loved to teach and spread his knowledge with anybody and everybody. He was deeply involved in Boy Scouts with his son Don, teaching survival skills from starting a fire to hunting and marksmanship with his first priority always being safety, later following the same footsteps with his grandchildren, teaching them some of the most important lessons to survive in this world. Dale loved spending all of his free time working in his shop, always finding things to fix (or at least figure out how they worked and how it broke). If he couldn't fix it then it was taken completely apart and neatly organized in his shop for future repairs. There was not anything that Dale was afraid to take on and he sure wasn't going to accept "I can't do that" from anyone. There was never a dull moment with Dale and never once a single second that you did not know that he loved you.
Celebration of Life services will be held July 1, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Midwest City, at 10:00 A.M. Dale's wishes were that any tribute to his life be made in the form of a donation to Oklahaven Children's Chiropractic Center or to the American Legion.
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