George Dalton was born on a ranch in Texas. He was the eldest of 7 brothers and sisters. .George grew up bailing hay, working cattle, riding horses, and Saturday night rodeos. His family went to church every Sunday with prayer meeting on Wednesday night, just like any kid in small town in Texas. When he was a sophomore in high school, he met the cutest little strawberry blonde cheerleader. As soon as he was out of school, he married her, and everyone said they were too young to make a marriage work. Now with four kids, ten beautiful grandchildren and eight wonderful great grandkids, and some sixty-seven years later they are still waiting to see if the critics were right.
His favorite song is “TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM” ….and the world will be better for this: that one man scorned and covered with scars and still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars. George has known the thrill of success and the agony of defeat but one thing he has never learned, though, is when to quit.
George started a small manufacturing company with a partner. George had learned to pilot airplanes when he was young, and wore out several small airplanes, while building a nationwide multimillion dollar business. To settle his partner’s divorce, he and Jean bought out the partner. Jean came into the manage the office and he hired his brother Don to manage the far-flung distribution centers scattered over thirty-eight states and Canada.
Then at age seventy he was hit by the perfect storm of life, in January, Don died. Then in March Jean and George were painting the kitchen in their big house and Jean slipped, falling off the ladder she was using shattering three vertebrae in her spine. George had lost his field manager (Don) and his office manager (Jean) within sixty days in April. George had a heart attack and had quadruple bypass heart surgery. While recuperating, a friend he had known for twenty-five years approached him with an offer to buy the company. The offer was to pay George a fairly large down payment and a large monthly payment basically for the rest of his life.
After Jean had five surgeries and was doing better in rehab, and George was though with rehab. Maybe it was time to take the offer, and retire. Life in retirement was good, George bought a new twin engine pressurized cabin class airplane. With time to pursue a lifetime dream of being a writer, George started writing short stories and selling them to magazines. Then the man who purchased his business filed bankruptcy. From there George decided to write novels, today he has six available on the market and a seventh is coming out soon.
He is still dreaming the impossible dream. At eighty-five he is still reaching for the unreachable stars.
His books talk about dreams often, this reflects George’s own views of life, and hopes for humanity.
George wants everyone to find and pursue that impossible dream….because, after all, dreams can come true!
-Duane K Estill
