Born April 5, 1901, in Galena, Kansas, Mable Dale was of Cherokee Indian descent, and because her paternal grandfather had been adopted into the Creek Indian Nation, the United States Government allotted her land designated for members of the Creek Nation. That land was later found to abound in petroleum products, making her wealthy in her early teen years. While still in her teens, she became a benefactress of the Yale community, financing the construction of the First Baptist Church at the corner of B Street and Boston in 1917 and then contributing the money needed the following year to build and furnish the sixty patient Mable Dale Hospital on C Street. The hospital served the Yale area until December of 1964. Although she lived in Yale only a few more years after the hospital was completed, countless people continued to benefit from her generous gifts to the city. After faithful service to her community and church, Mable Dale Potts died at age sixty four on March 11, 1965, in Norman, Oklahoma, and rests in Lawson cemetery north of Yale, the city she loved.