| OCR Text |
Show Long-time Kaysville residents honored By GARY R. BLODGETT KAYSVILLE Tribute is being paid this week to two longtime long-time residents of Kaysville, both of whom died during the past two weeks. Dr. D. Keith Barnes died at age 93 of natural causes at his home. Also, Coach Howard B. (Tuff) Lin-ford, Lin-ford, an athletic coach and the first member of the Hall of Fame at Southern Utah State College. He was 83. Dr. Barnes was honored last year by the Davis County Health Department for being the department's depart-ment's founder and first director, a position he held for more than 30 years. He also served on the State Board of Health, Utah Fish and Game Department, and was president presi-dent of the Utah Wildlife Federation Federa-tion and its Davis County Chapter. He was instrumental in implementing im-plementing many of Davis County's Coun-ty's and Utah's health standards which are still in effect. In addition to being a Davis County physician, he was probably --M " ' ' " " ' - nia mMtnmmtm Jt best known as a Davis High and Utah High School Activities Association Asso-ciation coach. He had close association asso-ciation with nearly a thousand young athletes during the 35 years he served in this capacity. Dr. Barnes was an engineering student in college but sparked an interest in medicine as a front-line litter-bearer during World War I in France. He joined the medical staff of McKay-Dee Hospital where he met and later married May (Dotty) Dotson on Feb. 20, 1934. They were married for 54 years. Coach Linford was born and reared in Kaysville where he coached four years at Davis High School, which included one . state championship in football. - Coach Linford was honored by SUSC because of his 13 years of coaching "every sport that came around" at the old Branch Agricultural Agricul-tural College (now SUSC) in Cedar City. During this time, he won three conference titles in basketball.'. basket-ball.'. , He returned to coach at Davis High in 1941 and later coached championship football and track teams at Utah State University. He concluded his coaching career back in the high school ranks at Bear River and Jordan. As a college football player, he was elected to two all-conference teams and twice was named honorable honor-able mention ail-American. He is survived by his wife, Lillian, Lil-lian, to whom he had been married for 55 years. They have one son and two daughters. |
