Dale- it's been 21 years

  

Washington post

 

June 15, 2001

Dale Alan Thompsen

Safeway Employee

Dale Alan Thompsen, 51, a Silver Spring resident and 33-year Safeway employee, died at a hospital in Baltimore June 15 from injuries he had received that day in a traffic accident in Laytonsville.

A spokesman for the Montgomery County police said Mr. Thompsen was riding his 2001 Harley-Davidson Classic motorcycle northbound on Route 108 when he collided with a Ford Taurus driven by a 21-year old Laytonsville woman who was pulling out of the Laytons Village Shopping Center shortly after 8 a.m. Police said that it appeared that the car driver had failed to yield the right-of-way.

Mr. Thompsen, an Oregon native, came to the Washington area in 1961 and graduated from Northwood High School in Silver Spring in 1968.

He had worked for Safeway mainly in Northern Virginia and was a night stocker in its Burke store at the time of his death.

Over the years, he had participated in motorcycle rallies, including the Memorial Day Rolling Thunder rally in Washington this year. He was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Rebos Club, and had received awards for aiding alcoholics.

His marriage to Janet Thompsen ended in divorce.

Survivors include his daughter, Molly Thompsen of Burke; his mother, Ruth Naumowicz of Silver Spring; and two sisters, Carol Hestvik of Ellicott City and Nancy Sherwood of Reston