Rev. R. Dale Jackson, 83, died on Nov. 27 at Ridgemont Terrace in Port Orchard.

He was born Aug. 27, 1920 in Seattle to Samuel and Jennie Jackson. He graduated from Franklin High School in Seattle in 1938. He married Marge Jackson on Dec. 13, 1940, in Seattle.

He worked for Boeing for a number of years and then attended Bible School at Bethel Temple in Seattle. He was ordained in 1951 as a minister at Immanuel Gospel Temple in Los Angeles.

He and his family moved to Melbourne, Australia, where they pastored for several years and then pastored in Sydney, Australia, from 1962 to 1978. They later moved to Hawaii, where he pastored at a church in Honolulu from 1978 to 1981.

He served as associate pastor at Word of Life in Kent from 1981 to 1987 and pastored at Kauai Bible Church on the island of Kauai in Hawaii from 1988 to1992. He retired in 1992 and moved to Port Orchard, where he attended Christian Life Center.

He is survived by his son, Ron, of Federal Way; daughter, a Donna Heath, of Port Orchard; a sister, Naomi Murphy, of Burbank, Wash.; a brother Ralph Jackson, of Federal Way; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife on May 3; two brothers, Ray and Robert; and a great-grandson.

A memorial service in remembrance of he and his wife was held at Christian Life Center in Port Orchard on Dec. 6.