Christopher J. Dale, 38, died October 7 in his Lawrence home of an apparent suicide. Dale is survived by a sister, Katie Dale Johnson of New Palestine, and by his mother, Nancy Dale of Westfield, who described him as, "A very nice boy" and "Never any trouble. Not ever--even when he was just a little thing. Never ran around as a teenager, never even got so much as a parking ticket when he was grown." Dale's sister added that he had been depressed lately, but their mother dismissed the notion. "He was just a little upset that he hadn't yet found a nice wife to settle down with. But it would have taken a special lady to be right for Chris, and ladies like that are hard to come by. But Chris would never have drowned his sorrows in booze or drugs--not after all the time I spent when he was younger telling him how bad those things are. Not a day of his life went by that I didn't tell him what trouble drugs and liquor are. What happened was surely an accident. Maybe he had a fever and was really dehydrated and looking to get well. It's just a tragedy. If I'd been there, or if he had found a good woman to take care of him, this would never have happened." Dale's body was found in his bed surrounded by the empty bottles from a case of Dasani water and six empty bottles of Flintstones vitamins.
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