Katherine Neel Dale was an American medical missionary of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church who served in Mexico; primarily in the states of San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas, specifically Rio Verde and Tampico regions.
Katherine and her husband, James G. Dale, served the Mexican people for over forty years, where she built up an extended practice (treating up to 18,500 patients per year),[1] founded and built Dale Memorial Hospital, and founded the Mexican Indian Mission - which included schools for Indian girls and boys.
[3] After a year and a half after opening her clinic in Ciudad del Maiz, Neel was married to J. G. Dale, who was that time studying the language in Rio Verde, San Louis Potosi.
She went to Ciudad del Maiz, San Luis Potosí, Mexico as a medical missionary of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1898.
She, with her spouse, primarily worked in Rio Verde area in San Luis Potosí where the hospital was built for the next 14 years.
[3] Dale opened a dormitory under the care and supervision of Christian women missionaries where the Mission would give the Indian girls room and board.
She was buried in Bethel Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Oak Hill, Wilcox County, Alabama.