Dale Pendergrass, 67

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:10:47 +0000

Dale Pendergrass, 67, died peacefully on August 3 at his home on North 19th Avenue. He arrived in Bozeman in 1994 with a U-Haul and a job at the MSU physical plant, and he never left. He liked to say he bought his house for “what a normal person pays,” a figure that now covers roughly half a down payment.

He walked the M Trail most mornings before his shift, back when you could count the other hikers on one hand. He watched the condo towers rise where the hay field used to be, and he watched his daughter Sarah move to Belgrade because the math stopped mathing. He didn’t mind the growth, exactly. He just wished the traffic moved faster so he could complain about it properly.

1994-Arrivals on The Bozeman Daily Bee

Dale Pendergrass, 67