Dates

• Existence: 1929 - 1990

Biographical History

Dale Thompson Fletcher (1929-1990) was an art professor in Utah.

Dale Thompson Fletcher was born on February 21, 1929 in Logan, Utah to Calvin Fletcher and Clara Irene Thompson. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served a mission for the Church in Northern California. Fletcher received his bachelor's degree from Utah State University, and his master's from the University of California, Berkeley. He married Leone Woolley on June 6, 1962 in the Logan Utah Temple, and they had five children. A painter, Fletcher taught art at South Cache High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also taught art and art history at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1965 to 1978. In 1979 he and his wife were divorced; he later married Darlene Linford at St. Luke's of the Mountain in La Crescenta, California. After resigning from BYU he pursued pyramidology, working as a teacher-author at the Rutherford Institute of Pyramidology.

Citation:

art and belief movement, 1991: page 66 (Dale Thompson Fletcher, 1929-1990; became an instructor of art and art history at Brigham Young University in 1965)

FamilySearch, via WWW, December 15, 2010 (Dale Thompson Fletcher; born February 21, 1929 in Logan, Utah to Calvin Fletcher and Clara Irene Thompson; died May 21, 1990 in Mesa, Arizona)

Provo herald, June 2, 1990 (Dale Fletcher; Dale Thompson Fletcher; m. Leone Woolley on June 6, 1962 in the Logan LDS Temple; divorced in 1979; m. Darlene Linford in St. Lukes of the Mountain in La Cresenta, Calif.; received bachelor's degree from Utah State University, master's from University of California, Berkeley; served as a missionary in Northern California; taught at South Cache High School in Salt Lake City; taught art and art history at Brigham Young University, 1965-1978; painter; teacher-author at Rutherford Institute of Pyramidology; five children, three step-children)

Marriott Library website, via WWW, Apr. 9, 2012 (Dale Fletcher; painter and teacher of studio, art history, and elementary education courses; joined art faculty at BYU in 1965; director of art gallery in late 1970s; resigned to pursue a cult of pyramidology)

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