Messinger Payson Funeral Home

Saturday. April 23, 2022, services for Ralph Hale were held in the Tonto Apache Gym. Many of Payson's Pioneer families were there to pay their respects to a "True Cowboy". The "Heart of Payson" is the only way to describe those in attendance, with more respect, kinship and fellowship than any funeral that has ever been held. When it came time for a prayer, every cowboy hat came off of every cowboy, young and old, in a single motion. To see this, it was impossible not to have a chill run throughout your body. Burial at Gisela Cemetery followed the service, with every tradition of the "cowboy way".