Gilbert, Arizona

About the Author

Dale Hallock came to Gilbert, Arizona, with his family, who migrated from Anadarko, Oklahoma in 1936. He was sixteen months old at the time his family fled the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression that had decimat ed Oklahoma. Except for a few years while serving in the United States Navy during the Korean War, and two short stints outside Gilbert, Gilbert has been his lifelong home. Dale graduated from Gilbert High School in 1952 and attended Arizona State Teachers College, Arizona State University, and Brigham Young University. He was presi dent of the Gilbert Jaycees and the Arizona Jaycees. He served as the chair-man of the Gilbert Planning and Zoning Committee before serving as mayor of Gilbert from 1971 to 1976. Dale has had a lifelong desire to gather the history of the people of Gilbert, and this pictorial history is a small portion of his writings on the families that have lived here. And his wife, Georganne Gibson Hallock, was born in Mesa Arizona in 1935. Her mother, Velma Anderson Gibson, was the granddaughter of John Logie Anderson, one of the earliest pioneers in the Gilbert area. Georganne’s family provided early history and photographs in this story of Filbert. Georganne graduated from Mesa High School in 1953 and attended Arizona State Teachers College before it became Arizona State University. Georganne and Dale were mar ried in July 1953 and raised their four children in Gilbert, Arizona.

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