The youngest son and second youngest of nine children, Rulon was handsome, tall (over 6 feet), and talented. Adored by his siblings, nieces, and nephews, he was an example, in spite of a small streak for mischievousness. He was musically gifted, played trumpet in the Oakley (Idaho) High School Band, and became it's drum major when he was a senior.
His sister, Clayta, remembers: "One night Rulon had a date with a girl who lived a short, walkable distance out of town. He had taken her home and was walking back, walking on the proper side of the road, facing traffic. A car crossed the road, hit him, and dragged him for a distance under the car. The driver left Rulon in the street and drove on." A passing driver saw him on the road, put him in the back of his pickup truck, and drove him to Burley where Rulon died.
One of his nephews writes: "It was a sobering experience for me [as a 12-year-old boy], my brothers and my cousins [all younger] as we viewed Uncle Rulon at my grandparents' Oakley home the day of the funeral. I may never again have the feeling I had that day as the Oakley High School Band, without instruments, marched behind the funeral coach that was carrying their fallen drum major. They then filed in as a group, in their red and white uniforms, for the funeral at the old Oakley Tabernacle."
From The Tribune Intermountain Wire, June 1940:
"HIT, RUN DRIVER SOUGHT IN DEATH
Oakley, Idaho--State, county, and local police were conducting an intensive search in Cassia County Monday for the driver and occupants of an automobile which struck and fatally injured Rulon Dayley, 20, as he walked down the highway between here and Burley early Sunday morning following a dance."
His sister, Clayta, remembers: "One night Rulon had a date with a girl who lived a short, walkable distance out of town. He had taken her home and was walking back, walking on the proper side of the road, facing traffic. A car crossed the road, hit him, and dragged him for a distance under the car. The driver left Rulon in the street and drove on." A passing driver saw him on the road, put him in the back of his pickup truck, and drove him to Burley where Rulon died.
One of his nephews writes: "It was a sobering experience for me [as a 12-year-old boy], my brothers and my cousins [all younger] as we viewed Uncle Rulon at my grandparents' Oakley home the day of the funeral. I may never again have the feeling I had that day as the Oakley High School Band, without instruments, marched behind the funeral coach that was carrying their fallen drum major. They then filed in as a group, in their red and white uniforms, for the funeral at the old Oakley Tabernacle."
From The Tribune Intermountain Wire, June 1940:
"HIT, RUN DRIVER SOUGHT IN DEATH
Oakley, Idaho--State, county, and local police were conducting an intensive search in Cassia County Monday for the driver and occupants of an automobile which struck and fatally injured Rulon Dayley, 20, as he walked down the highway between here and Burley early Sunday morning following a dance."
The youngest son and second youngest of nine children, Rulon was handsome, tall (over 6 feet), and talented. Adored by his siblings, nieces, and nephews, he was an example, in spite of a small streak for mischievousness. He was musically gifted, played trumpet in the Oakley (Idaho) High School Band, and became it's drum major when he was a senior.
His sister, Clayta, remembers: "One night Rulon had a date with a girl who lived a short, walkable distance out of town. He had taken her home and was walking back, walking on the proper side of the road, facing traffic. A car crossed the road, hit him, and dragged him for a distance under the car. The driver left Rulon in the street and drove on." A passing driver saw him on the road, put him in the back of his pickup truck, and drove him to Burley where Rulon died.
One of his nephews writes: "It was a sobering experience for me [as a 12-year-old boy], my brothers and my cousins [all younger] as we viewed Uncle Rulon at my grandparents' Oakley home the day of the funeral. I may never again have the feeling I had that day as the Oakley High School Band, without instruments, marched behind the funeral coach that was carrying their fallen drum major. They then filed in as a group, in their red and white uniforms, for the funeral at the old Oakley Tabernacle."
From The Tribune Intermountain Wire, June 1940:
"HIT, RUN DRIVER SOUGHT IN DEATH
Oakley, Idaho--State, county, and local police were conducting an intensive search in Cassia County Monday for the driver and occupants of an automobile which struck and fatally injured Rulon Dayley, 20, as he walked down the highway between here and Burley early Sunday morning following a dance."
His sister, Clayta, remembers: "One night Rulon had a date with a girl who lived a short, walkable distance out of town. He had taken her home and was walking back, walking on the proper side of the road, facing traffic. A car crossed the road, hit him, and dragged him for a distance under the car. The driver left Rulon in the street and drove on." A passing driver saw him on the road, put him in the back of his pickup truck, and drove him to Burley where Rulon died.
One of his nephews writes: "It was a sobering experience for me [as a 12-year-old boy], my brothers and my cousins [all younger] as we viewed Uncle Rulon at my grandparents' Oakley home the day of the funeral. I may never again have the feeling I had that day as the Oakley High School Band, without instruments, marched behind the funeral coach that was carrying their fallen drum major. They then filed in as a group, in their red and white uniforms, for the funeral at the old Oakley Tabernacle."
From The Tribune Intermountain Wire, June 1940:
"HIT, RUN DRIVER SOUGHT IN DEATH
Oakley, Idaho--State, county, and local police were conducting an intensive search in Cassia County Monday for the driver and occupants of an automobile which struck and fatally injured Rulon Dayley, 20, as he walked down the highway between here and Burley early Sunday morning following a dance."
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