Thomas Duncombe Dee, II

Thomas Duncombe Dee, II

OGDEN a€" Thomas Duncombe Dee, II, passed away Thursday, July 16, 2009 at his home in Ogden. He was born in the original Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital in Ogden, Utah, on April 27, 1920, the only child of Lawrence Taylor and Janet Teller Dee. He was a grandson of Utah Pioneers, Thomas Duncombe and Annie Taylor Dee.

Tom attended Ogden City Schools graduating from Ogden High School in 1937; he thereafter graduated from Stanford University in 1941. He later did graduate work at the Columbia University School of Business.

As a reserve officer in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, he served primarily in the Middle East Theater in the African Campaign as an Air Corps Communications Officer. In 1944, he was severely wounded in a plane crash in the Egyptian Desert.

Following his discharge from the Army Air Corps, Tom joined his father and his uncle, Joseph F. Barker, in the management of the Utah Canning Company, Ogden, Utah, and the Pendleton Frozen Foods Company, Pendleton, Oregon. He eventually served as the President of both companies. He always displayed the highest respect and esteem for his Dee family progenitors.

On May 15, 1949, Tom married Elizabeth Cecelia Brown. They were the parents of two sons, Thomas Duncombe Dee, III and David Lawrence Dee. Elizabeth B. Dee died on October 26, 1990. Tom married Janice Judge Johnston on June 25, 1991.

In 1965, First Security Bank of Utah, Ogden, Utah, employed him; he became Vice President and Manager of the Ogden Main Branch. He retired in 1976.

Tom had a long and varied career in both business and community service. He served many years as a Director of First Security Corporation and as a member of its Executive Committee. He was a Director of Utah International Corporation, (formerly Utah Construction, Inc.), and President of The Dee Company, Investments.

Tom was a founding Trustee of Intermountain Health Care, a Trustee and Treasurer of the originial Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital, and a Trustee and Treasurer of the McKay-Dee Hospital Center. He also served as a Trustee of the Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, California.

He was a member of the Honorary Colonels Corps of Utah, the National Advisory Board of the University of Utah, and a member of its Health Sciences Council. He was a past president of the Greater Ogden Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club of Ogden, the Ogden Carnegie Library Board, the Ogden Golf and Country Club, Ogden Symphony Guild, the American Red Cross Bonneville Chapter and the Weber County Chapter of the Utah Heart Association.

Weber State University awarded him both an Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree and its Distinguished Service Award for Community Service. He was an elected member of the Utah Beehive Hall of Fame, and was named an Honorary Alumnus of the University of Utah.

Tom enjoyed the game of golf and he held memberships in the Ogden Golf and Country Club, the Eldorado Country Club, Indian Wells, and the Desert Horizon County Club at Indian Wells, CA.

Tom is survived by his wife, Janice J. Dee, sons, Thomas D. III (Candace) Dee and David L. (Karen) Dee, grandsons Nathan, Matthew, and Gardner; granddaughters Elisabeth, Gillian, and Caroline. He is also survived by two stepdaughters, Elizabeth (Steve) Huebner and Jennifer (Spencer) Furch, and two step-grandchildren, Kate Huebner and Brian Furch.

The family wishes to thank At Home Personal Care and Intermountain Healthcare Hospice for their compassion and service.

Services will be held Tuesday, July 21 at 11 a.m. at Lindquist''s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd.

Family will meet friends at the mortuary on Tuesday from 10 to 10:45 a.m.

Interment, Lindquist''s Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd., Ogden.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations are made to a charity of your choice.

Send condolences to the family at: www.lindquistmortuary.com