Ralph Dale Earnhardt Personal Life

Ralph Dale Earnhardt is best known professionally as Dale Earnhardt, he  was an American race car driver and team owner. Best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR. Dale was born on April 29th 1951 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States. He died on February 18th, 2001 at Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. His parents names were Martha Coleman and Ralph Earnhardt. Dale had four siblings Danny, Randy, Kathy, and Kaye. Earnhardt's father was one of the best short-track drivers in North Carolina. Although Dale's father did not want him to pursue a career as a race car driver because it was dangerous, he dropped out of school and pursued his dream anyways. Dale's father trained him to race until he died. Dale did not race until he knew he had finally proven to himself to his father. At the age of 17, Dale married his first of  three wife's Latane Brown. They had a boy named Kerry Earnhardt. Later, Dale and Latane got a divorce, which was in 1970. He then married Brenda Gee and had two kids with her. A girl named Kelley King Earnhardt and a son named Dale Jr. Earnhardt. These two soon got divorced and Dale finally married his last wife, Teresa Houston and they had a little girl named Taylor Nicole Earnhardt.