David Hansen Wiseman

David was born on June 29, 1948, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Don and Edice Wiseman. His father's railroad career took the family to many places before landing in the Philadelphia area for David's formative years. While in Philadelphia, David discovered a love of baseball. He listened to Yankees games on the radio, faithfully keeping score while cheering for his hero, Mickey Mantle. The family eventually moved to Chicago, famously arriving in "October of his senior year," a family story that never seemed to lose its humor. There, his loyalties shifted to the Cubs, a relationship that, like most lifelong Cubs fans, required equal parts hope, patience, and optimism.

After high school, David briefly attended Northern Illinois University before serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy. He later attended Brigham Young University, where he met Sally, the woman who would become his wife and partner for the next fifty-five years. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple in November 1970. Decades later, David and Sally served together as a senior missionary couple in Alabama.

David's professional life rarely followed a straight line. He was an entrepreneur by nature, always convinced there might be another opportunity just over the horizon. Some ventures succeeded, others did not, but he never seemed content standing still. He owned two pizza restaurants, sold insurance, operated health clubs, and eventually founded Predictive Index of Utah with the financial backing of his late friend, David Peterson. There he found work that fit his natural curiosity about people, his gift for conversation, and his ability to help organizations assess, develop, and better understand their people.

If you knew David, there is a good chance you knew him from somewhere other than work. For four decades he coached baseball and football, investing countless evenings and weekends in young athletes. Many players loved him. Some probably didn't. Very few were ever indifferent.

Outside of coaching, David enjoyed movies, music, and ward and stake theater productions. He loved to sing, played the guitar, appeared in productions of Bus Stop and Hello, Dolly!, and directed The Music Man. He was happiest spending time with Sally whether they were off traveling, out for dinner or a movie, or simply sitting together on the back porch. He also loved holding his infant grandchildren, talking baseball, watching the Cubs, and driving a tractor while grooming a baseball field. He never did make peace with the squirrels that insisted on treating his walnut tree as their own.

Those who knew David best also knew a man who was imperfect, determined, funny, dramatic, optimistic, frustrating, generous, stubborn, and resilient. He kept trying.

David is survived by his wife, Sally; his sons, Zachary (Lindsi), Anthony (Allie), Nicholas (Rosy), and Joseph (Annie); his grandchildren, David, Jenna, Kate, Emily, AJ, Adeline, Bret, Cole, Drew, Laci, Lexi, Max, Megan, Leo, Quinn; his great-grandson, Cyrus Anthony; and his brother, Keith (Helen).

He was preceded in death by his parents, Don and Edice Wiseman; his infant brother, Mark; and his grandson, Cyrus Jacob, infant son of Joseph and Annie.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 1, at his home chapel located at 4500 South and 2700 East in Holladay. Meet and mingle with family from 9 am to 10:45 am, followed by service at 11am.

The family is grateful for the many friends, neighbors, former players, clients, and loved ones who became part of David's long and eventful journey. His life was never ordinary, and neither was he.