Dorothy Bale, who in her retirement years worked at a Utah Arby’s for nearly 26 years and earned national attention for it, has died. Bale died Oct. 16, according to an obituary posted by a Millcreek mortuary.
She turned 100 years old in May. Bale was 69 in 1994, when she walked into the Arby’s at the corner of 2300 East and 3900 South in Holladay, across the street from Olympus High School, on the border where Holladay meets Millcreek. “I just came in and asked if they were hiring,” Bale told The Salt Lake Tribune in January 2019 , when she marked her 25th anniversary with Arby’s.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sharon Grover orders a drink from her long time friend 94-year-old Dorothy Bale, who in January 2019 was marking 25 years working at an Arby's in Holladay, Utah. Bale left Arby's in December 2019, after nearly 26 years there. She died Oct.
16, 2024, at age 100. She and her husband, Dennis, had retired in 1988 from his Sugar House dental practice, where she worked in the office. Sixteen months after they retired, Dennis died of a heart attack at age 66.
Bale traveled for a few years, then applied for the Arby’s job. “I would not like staying home at all,” she said in 2019. “She’s going, going, going.
She never stops,” said Cici Salvador, then Bale’s manager at Arby’s. “You never see her just standing there. She’s like a little bunny.
” Bale usually worked three days a week, cleaning tables and running the register. People in.
