Mr. James Reuben Hale, 85, of McMinnville died Saturday, Aug. 4, at St. Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville. He was born Sept. 11, 1932, in Smithville, was a retired machinist with Ford Motor Company, a veteran with the U.S. Army during the Korean War, member of Ezel Masonic Lodge No. 381, Order of the Eastern Star Lodge No.