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David Lyn (Dave) Pearce

Posted 2015-04-24 by Sharla
Arizona Silver Belt, Globe, Arizona,
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

David Lynn Pearce, 76

Former resident, David Lynn Pearce passed away April 18, 2015. Pearce was born August 16, 1938 to David Reese Pearce and Nola Joyce Lunt of Beaver, Utah.

After graduation from Beaver High School, Pearce was recruited by Coach Tony Knapp as a halfback for the Utah State Aggies. After his sophomore year he was called to serve an LDS Mission. That service to the Lord took him to Argentina and Chile at a time when there was only one mission in southern South America.

Upon his return, he finished his football career with Coach John Ralston and teammates Merlin Olsen, Lionel Aldridge and others of his team who went on to professional football. Dave graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Education and Physical Education in 1964, He got his Master’s Degree in 1969, also from Utah State University.

He began his career as a teacher/ coach first in Snowflake, Ariz., then in Idaho Falls, Idaho. In 1969, he was hired on the inaugural staff at Central Arizona College in Casa Grande, Ariz. as the first track and wrestling coach. He moved the family from Idaho with the additional assignment to plan for a football program for CAC. When the college decided against a football program, Dave left teaching/coaching and came to Miami, Ariz. where he spent twenty years at a local mine as a safety engineer. He was then hired as the safety engineer for the historic Roosevelt Dam reconstruction and then was in demand for huge water projects over the southwest. His last project was the remarkable project at Hemet, Cali., where three earthen dams now contain Diamond Lake and provides potable water for much of southern California.

Dave is survived by his spouse Linda; son David John (Shelley) of Prescott, Ariz.; daughters Lisa Blodgett (David) of Cedar City, Utah; and Laura Pearce of Miami, Ariz.

His grandchildren are: David Reese, Rhett, and Emma Pearce of Prescott; and Hannah, Rachel and David Terry Blodgett of Cedar City, Utah.

Services will be Thursday, April 23, at 10 a.m. in the LDS First Ward in Beaver Utah, with Interment at the Beaver Cemetery. Southern Utah Mortuary in Beaver is in charge of arrangements.

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