David George Seymour

David George Seymour, 82, born in Milan Missouri, Passed away on March 9, 2024 surrounded by family & friends. He was born to George and Margaret (Wright) Seymour. He was the middle child of three, Marjorie Shumaker and Danny Seymour. David loved to tease his younger brother that he was adopted.

He graduated from Tucson high school in 1960 in the same year he suffered a severe head injury disabling him for life. David lost the use of everything on his right side. After lots of hard work, he regained use of everything except his right arm. That did not keep him from becoming the best driver you ever rode with. He was determined to go on with his life running his own business called Ranger Landscaping. Prior to returning from San Simon to Tucson, he worked on his brother-in-law's farm helping to raise cotton and grow watermelons. He would load those watermelons up in his pickup truck bring them to Tucson and sell them to street markets for one and a 1/2 cents a pound.

Well, one fine day in 1979 David announced to his fellow farm workers "I'm moving back to Tucson". Replying to their inquiries, he stated that he was going to marry a nurse. In the meantime, he took a job with the Tucson Medical Center's Grounds Keeping crew. David was in charge of all the patios at the hospital. Across from the cafeteria is a patio between the intensive care unit and the post critical care unit. David was instrumental in the building of Matterhorn. He grew vegetation at his home then transplanted them to the moat surrounding the Matterhorn.

In January 1983, a coworker gave him an address from a woman seeking yard work. Ralph did not think the woman was married. Since Dave had the landscaping side business, he checked out this lead. "Oh boy " he thought. This place is a disaster. However, the words "not married" made him knock on the door. He took the job and Rev. William Killian married the woman, Teri Miller a nurse and David on July 8, 1983. This was 40 years and 8 month ago.

David loved driving. He and Teri went on numerous trips around the country from coast to coast. He was extremely organized. Everything had a place. He collected rattlesnake skins from snakes he killed himself, arrowheads, baseball caps, comic books, and political and generic buttons of which he had over a thousand. In addition, lapel push pins of all sorts. He loved eagles and elephants.

Teri told his family "no more eagle statues" but after Christmas, she had to purchase their third display cabinet for all the eagles received.

"I'll read the AZ Highways when I retire," he said. But never got around to it. His collection went back about 20 years.

David was always willing to lend a helping hand or drive you wherever you need to go. He worked two jobs.