2025 Spud Days Grand Marshall

Ron Searle was born and raised in Shelley. A few years after they were married, he and his wife, Dayle, settled in Shelley where they raised their six children.

Spud Day was such a tradition for their family, that after one of their daughters grew up and moved away, she was surprised to learn that people in other places didn’t know about it.

Ron is a retired potato farmer and was the director of transportation for the Shelley School district for 20 years. Dayle Searle was the secretary for the Shelley Education Foundation for 15 years and the head of the city’s Tree Committee for 7 years. She is a free lance writer, whose novel The Reluctant courtship of Jack Allan is set in an Idaho town based loosely on

Shelley. Besides their six children, the couple has six wonderful sons and daughters-in-law, and

twenty grandchildren, who love coming to Spud Day.

Ron and Dayle appreciate all the love and support they have received from our community and are proud to call Shelley their home.