Dennis Wayne Gay passed away on January 5, 2018 in Newport Beach, California, a state he had a great affinity for, next to the Pacific Ocean that he loved to walk beside. He left peacefully, surrounded by his children, as well as his beloved wife and true companion, Gay.
Dennis was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1946 to Bryant Levon Gay and Elaine Davis and was raised in the most humble circumstances in Coushatta, Louisiana.
Dennis was a car guy. If you aren't a car guy then you just don't get that. If you are, then you do, and Dennis loved every aspect of them: their designs, mechanics, smells, sounds. It was this love that led him to the mechanical engineering program at Brigham Young University.
Dennis had a younger brother named Alvin who served in the Vietnam War. He was a helicopter gunner, and on April 1st, 1969, while rescuing fellow soldiers, Alvin was shot and killed. Dennis was heartbroken, and he loved and cared for Alvin's son Troy Gay throughout his life. Troy said at Dennis's passing, "Dennis was the man I trusted most in life." Dennis is now reunited with his kid brother.
Dennis lent office space to an expert in herbal research and formulating who asked him for business advice. In 1992, this lead to the launch of Basic Research, a Utah company that has successfully sold health and beauty products in over 50 countries around the world and employed thousands of people over the years. Dennis often said that one of things he loved most about Basic Research is that it provided the means to support so many families.
Dennis was a man of sharp intellect who could calculate and ascertain a problem, challenge, or opportunity with remarkable clarity. He was also a man of questions; his engineering mind required him to seek to find answers. Anyone who knew him knew this unique aspect of his personality and how effective it was in always keeping things moving forward. Dennis created, was always on the move, always fixing something, working on something, in constant thought or action to get things done. His actions, hard and driven work ethic and energy blessed more people's lives than anyone really knows. There are undoubtedly thousands of people who owe their livelihood, successes, survival and prosperity directly to the ability of Dennis to study, design, create and implement.
One of the greatest highpoints in Dennis' life was serving for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as Branch President at the Wasatch Youth Correctional Facility. With Gay by his side, they reached out to many troubled youth with open hearts and all the resources at their disposal to help these young people move forward to a better life. Dennis and his great friend Gary Kehl created the blueprint for the State of Utah to partner with the LDS church in giving numerous troubled youth a second chance so they didn't end up back in the system. That blue print is still being used today.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks you to consider organ donation.
Friends may greet his family on Sunday, January 14th from 5:00 until 7:00 PM at the Salt Lake Cottonwood Stake Center, 1830 East 6400 South. A funeral service will be held on Monday, January 15th at 10:00 AM, also at the church, where friends may visit one hour prior to the service. Private interment will be held at Springville Cemetery.
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Published in Salt Lake Tribune from Jan. 10 to Jan. 14, 2018
Dennis was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1946 to Bryant Levon Gay and Elaine Davis and was raised in the most humble circumstances in Coushatta, Louisiana.
Dennis was a car guy. If you aren't a car guy then you just don't get that. If you are, then you do, and Dennis loved every aspect of them: their designs, mechanics, smells, sounds. It was this love that led him to the mechanical engineering program at Brigham Young University.
Dennis had a younger brother named Alvin who served in the Vietnam War. He was a helicopter gunner, and on April 1st, 1969, while rescuing fellow soldiers, Alvin was shot and killed. Dennis was heartbroken, and he loved and cared for Alvin's son Troy Gay throughout his life. Troy said at Dennis's passing, "Dennis was the man I trusted most in life." Dennis is now reunited with his kid brother.
Dennis lent office space to an expert in herbal research and formulating who asked him for business advice. In 1992, this lead to the launch of Basic Research, a Utah company that has successfully sold health and beauty products in over 50 countries around the world and employed thousands of people over the years. Dennis often said that one of things he loved most about Basic Research is that it provided the means to support so many families.
Dennis was a man of sharp intellect who could calculate and ascertain a problem, challenge, or opportunity with remarkable clarity. He was also a man of questions; his engineering mind required him to seek to find answers. Anyone who knew him knew this unique aspect of his personality and how effective it was in always keeping things moving forward. Dennis created, was always on the move, always fixing something, working on something, in constant thought or action to get things done. His actions, hard and driven work ethic and energy blessed more people's lives than anyone really knows. There are undoubtedly thousands of people who owe their livelihood, successes, survival and prosperity directly to the ability of Dennis to study, design, create and implement.
One of the greatest highpoints in Dennis' life was serving for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as Branch President at the Wasatch Youth Correctional Facility. With Gay by his side, they reached out to many troubled youth with open hearts and all the resources at their disposal to help these young people move forward to a better life. Dennis and his great friend Gary Kehl created the blueprint for the State of Utah to partner with the LDS church in giving numerous troubled youth a second chance so they didn't end up back in the system. That blue print is still being used today.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks you to consider organ donation.
Friends may greet his family on Sunday, January 14th from 5:00 until 7:00 PM at the Salt Lake Cottonwood Stake Center, 1830 East 6400 South. A funeral service will be held on Monday, January 15th at 10:00 AM, also at the church, where friends may visit one hour prior to the service. Private interment will be held at Springville Cemetery.
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Published in Salt Lake Tribune from Jan. 10 to Jan. 14, 2018
Dennis Wayne Gay passed away on January 5, 2018 in Newport Beach, California, a state he had a great affinity for, next to the Pacific Ocean that he loved to walk beside. He left peacefully, surrounded by his children, as well as his beloved wife and true companion, Gay.
Dennis was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1946 to Bryant Levon Gay and Elaine Davis and was raised in the most humble circumstances in Coushatta, Louisiana.
Dennis was a car guy. If you aren't a car guy then you just don't get that. If you are, then you do, and Dennis loved every aspect of them: their designs, mechanics, smells, sounds. It was this love that led him to the mechanical engineering program at Brigham Young University.
Dennis had a younger brother named Alvin who served in the Vietnam War. He was a helicopter gunner, and on April 1st, 1969, while rescuing fellow soldiers, Alvin was shot and killed. Dennis was heartbroken, and he loved and cared for Alvin's son Troy Gay throughout his life. Troy said at Dennis's passing, "Dennis was the man I trusted most in life." Dennis is now reunited with his kid brother.
Dennis lent office space to an expert in herbal research and formulating who asked him for business advice. In 1992, this lead to the launch of Basic Research, a Utah company that has successfully sold health and beauty products in over 50 countries around the world and employed thousands of people over the years. Dennis often said that one of things he loved most about Basic Research is that it provided the means to support so many families.
Dennis was a man of sharp intellect who could calculate and ascertain a problem, challenge, or opportunity with remarkable clarity. He was also a man of questions; his engineering mind required him to seek to find answers. Anyone who knew him knew this unique aspect of his personality and how effective it was in always keeping things moving forward. Dennis created, was always on the move, always fixing something, working on something, in constant thought or action to get things done. His actions, hard and driven work ethic and energy blessed more people's lives than anyone really knows. There are undoubtedly thousands of people who owe their livelihood, successes, survival and prosperity directly to the ability of Dennis to study, design, create and implement.
One of the greatest highpoints in Dennis' life was serving for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as Branch President at the Wasatch Youth Correctional Facility. With Gay by his side, they reached out to many troubled youth with open hearts and all the resources at their disposal to help these young people move forward to a better life. Dennis and his great friend Gary Kehl created the blueprint for the State of Utah to partner with the LDS church in giving numerous troubled youth a second chance so they didn't end up back in the system. That blue print is still being used today.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks you to consider organ donation.
Friends may greet his family on Sunday, January 14th from 5:00 until 7:00 PM at the Salt Lake Cottonwood Stake Center, 1830 East 6400 South. A funeral service will be held on Monday, January 15th at 10:00 AM, also at the church, where friends may visit one hour prior to the service. Private interment will be held at Springville Cemetery.
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Published in Salt Lake Tribune from Jan. 10 to Jan. 14, 2018
Dennis was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1946 to Bryant Levon Gay and Elaine Davis and was raised in the most humble circumstances in Coushatta, Louisiana.
Dennis was a car guy. If you aren't a car guy then you just don't get that. If you are, then you do, and Dennis loved every aspect of them: their designs, mechanics, smells, sounds. It was this love that led him to the mechanical engineering program at Brigham Young University.
Dennis had a younger brother named Alvin who served in the Vietnam War. He was a helicopter gunner, and on April 1st, 1969, while rescuing fellow soldiers, Alvin was shot and killed. Dennis was heartbroken, and he loved and cared for Alvin's son Troy Gay throughout his life. Troy said at Dennis's passing, "Dennis was the man I trusted most in life." Dennis is now reunited with his kid brother.
Dennis lent office space to an expert in herbal research and formulating who asked him for business advice. In 1992, this lead to the launch of Basic Research, a Utah company that has successfully sold health and beauty products in over 50 countries around the world and employed thousands of people over the years. Dennis often said that one of things he loved most about Basic Research is that it provided the means to support so many families.
Dennis was a man of sharp intellect who could calculate and ascertain a problem, challenge, or opportunity with remarkable clarity. He was also a man of questions; his engineering mind required him to seek to find answers. Anyone who knew him knew this unique aspect of his personality and how effective it was in always keeping things moving forward. Dennis created, was always on the move, always fixing something, working on something, in constant thought or action to get things done. His actions, hard and driven work ethic and energy blessed more people's lives than anyone really knows. There are undoubtedly thousands of people who owe their livelihood, successes, survival and prosperity directly to the ability of Dennis to study, design, create and implement.
One of the greatest highpoints in Dennis' life was serving for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as Branch President at the Wasatch Youth Correctional Facility. With Gay by his side, they reached out to many troubled youth with open hearts and all the resources at their disposal to help these young people move forward to a better life. Dennis and his great friend Gary Kehl created the blueprint for the State of Utah to partner with the LDS church in giving numerous troubled youth a second chance so they didn't end up back in the system. That blue print is still being used today.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks you to consider organ donation.
Friends may greet his family on Sunday, January 14th from 5:00 until 7:00 PM at the Salt Lake Cottonwood Stake Center, 1830 East 6400 South. A funeral service will be held on Monday, January 15th at 10:00 AM, also at the church, where friends may visit one hour prior to the service. Private interment will be held at Springville Cemetery.
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Published in Salt Lake Tribune from Jan. 10 to Jan. 14, 2018
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