Dr. Dean Carrol Rigby was born November 4, 1919 in Fairview, a son of Dr. Samuel B. and Alice Anderson Rigby. He graduated from Wasatch Academy in 1938. He received his BS degree from Utah State University and his MD from the University of Utah, and interned at Sacramento County General Hospital. He practiced medicine for 20 years, spending 11 years in Moroni before moving to Mt. Pleasant in 1960.
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He was a member of the Utah State Medical Association, a member of the Sanpete L.D.S. Hospital staff and school doctor at Wasatch Academy for eight years. He served as captain in the Army. Dr. Rigby was a member of the L.D.S. Church.
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He married Lurline Jones October 7, 1945 in Sacramento and the marriage was later solemnized in the Manti Temple
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Dr. Rigby was a member of the Mt. Pleasant Lions Club and a
councilman in Mt. Pleasant City administration. He served as chairman of the cemetery, also buildings and public grounds committee. He also served on the public safety and waterworks committees, and he was a member of the city board of health.
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He and his wife Lurline were the parents of two children, Newel and Alice Gaye.
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He died August 26, 1968, along with another city councilman, Andrew Pratt in a terrible accident while traveling along Mt. Pleasant State Street where they were hit broadside by a runaway city vehicle.
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