DALE KUETER wrote for Iowa newspapers for 41 years, 34 at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids.  He attended Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1958. He served six years in the Iowa Army National Guard.

 

Kueter grew up on a farm near Bellevue, Iowa.  After college he married Helen Hayes.  They are parents of five daughters and have 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  He has published a children’s book, “Hide the Daddy,” two full-length, non-fiction books,“Vietnam Sons” and “The Smell of the Soil,” and two historical novels, “Motel Sepia" and "Ma Bremer's Boys."

 

He is a proponent of family story writing as a means of sustaining family history. That is the essence of his book,“The Smell of the Soil.”

 

Kueter likes to fish, travel and is a long-suffering fan of the Chicago White Sox.  He and his wife live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.