David Jerome Ferguson
August 31, 1959 - March 14, 2025
On Friday, 3/14/25, we learned that our brother David passed away unexpectedly. He was found in his house by a friend.
David was always gregarious and full of humor, and would most often lead into conversations and exchanges with a joke or a quip. His love and affection were loud. He was always very generous with his family and friends.
David was extremely diligent and hard working, running concrete and snow plowing businesses.
As a boy growing up in Sandy, Utah, David went on many fishing and hunting adventures with my dad and the rest of our family. Parental supervision couldn’t stop him from also setting out with his young buddies — I’m sure he worried my parents sick, but he always made it back home alive.
After high school, David joined the Army and was eventually stationed in Germany. During weekend leaves, he drove all over Europe in his BMW 02s and a Toyota truck with a topper outfitted for sleeping, going to beer and wine festivals and concerts by the Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, and many others.
David was expert in fly angling and fly tying and took part in many fly tying conferences. His angling passion was taking out his float craft to fish for “monster” trout in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Utah. Before a trip he would quickly and masterfully tie dozens to hundreds of flies. On a guided steelhead fishing trip, our guide looked at the many boxes full of flies that David had tied and remarked that David was a connoisseur of hackle and feathers.
David was single and didn’t have any children, but he loved to delight and goof off with the kids of his friends and neighbors, often buying them gifts and taking them to Utah Jazz games.
For many years, David bought season tickets to the Utah Jazz with our Aunt Marilyn and they would go together, always starting with dinner at Iggy’s, and proceeding with Marilyn holding on to David’s belt as they walked into the Jazz Arena and he parted the crowds for her.
David turned 65 in August and was preparing to retire soon. He had plans to buy a camping van, outfit it for his fishing gear, and set out with his dog Dillon to spend life fly fishing and having other adventures. Many times over the past couple of years I would ask if he had managed to spend any time recently fishing and his answer was most often that he was too busy with work and running a business to spend any time to fish. It’s heartbreaking to think how close he was to realizing his goals for retiring and “living the dream”. We siblings are spending the week together to share good memories and appreciate the wonderful qualities of our brother.
A celebration of life in Salt Lake City will be planned at a future date.
In Loving Memory
Dear Ferguson: sorry to hear of David’s passing. I met him one day when he was finishing the concrete here on Scott Court in Millcreek. I know he and Lloyd can now spend hours together in the “Great Beyond” recounting their fishing tales! My sympathy, Bonnie Brothers Cavill
So very sorry for your loss. Thinking of you all and Jonathon as the family spends time Together .. SLW Firm
In Loving Memory
