Judge James Dingle, 89, has passed away

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Judge James Dingle completed an entire career before many of his judicial contemporaries finished high school. As an educator for more than 40 years with C.E. Murray High School in Greeleyville, Dingle also served as a football coach; an athletics director; an industrial arts teacher; and as assistant high school administrator. But when asked about his long career, he just smiles and has a simple answer. “I was just a down home country boy who went off and made good and came back home to work in my community,” he told The Manning Times in 2016. Judge James Dingle, 89, died Monday, April 29, 2019, at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence.. Born Nov. 14, 1929, in Alcolu, he was a son of the late Johnny Dingle and Eliza Miller Dingle. Dingle attended Midlands Technical College in Columbia and South Carolina State University in Orangeburg before returning to his hometown of Manning. He would end up spending more than 30 years at C.E. Murray High School, just a few miles down S.C. 261 from the community where Dingle’s name would become ubiquitous with “service before self.” Check back for comments from friends and colleagues. If you would like to say something positive about Judge Dingle, please email editorial@manninglive.com Provide your full name and where you are from. Responses may be used in the paper, but all will be published on manninglive.com..