Roy R. Estle Memorial Library

Roy R. Estle was born in Dallas Center and lived here until moving to LaGrange, Illinois.  He returned to Dallas Center following graduation from high school and attended Grinnell College and later Cummings School of Art in Des Moines.  He was an avid aviation enthusiast and received his pilot license in 1939.  He was a flight instructor for the Civil Air Patrol and in 1944 joined the Army Air Force.  After serving time in the Army Ferry Command, he was assigned duty in the Burma-China Theatre of operations and served there until his honorable discharge in 1946.  After his discharge he returned to Dallas Center and engaged in farming.

After his death in 1969, his mother, Minnie honored him and his love of reading with a bequest in her will to donate the funds needed to build the library.  She passed away in 1971 and the library was completed in 1976.