Former Canyon County Sheriff Dies

Tue., Aug. 15, 1995

From Staff And Wire Reports

Four-term Canyon County Sheriff and Coroner Dale Haile, who also served as police chief in Parma and Caldwell, has died of natural causes. He was 80.

Officials said Haile died at his home on Sunday evening. He will be buried on Thursday.

“He was no nonsense type of individual,” said County Coroner Vicki DeGeus. “He was quite stubborn. He said it like it was and didn’t cut you any slack. He was highly respected. How do you put a man’s life in a few short sentences. … I owe him everything.”

Haile, for whom the county’s new jail is named, hired DeGeus as his deputy when he served as coroner from 1984 until retiring in 1991.

Prior to that, he was police chief in the 1940s and early 1950s in Parma and Caldwell and in 1953 began the first of four terms as Canyon County sheriff.

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