Community honors Owasso doctor and former lawmaker

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TULSA, Okla. — The assemblage of Owasso and Oklahoma lawmakers are remembering a doc who drowned connected Oologah Lake.
Dr. Dale Derby was trying to retrieve his vessel precocious yesterday erstwhile helium went nether and ne'er resurfaced.

Dr. Derby was a husband, father, doctor, and astatine 1 constituent adjacent an Oklahoma lawmaker representing Tulsa and Rogers counties.

“I couldn’t judge it conscionable due to the fact that I had virtually sat down and talked with Dr. Derby virtually 4 hours before,” Scott Lasson, CEO of Bailey Medical Center said.

An full assemblage is astatine a nonaccomplishment for words aft learning astir the tragedy.

“It appears that the unfortunate and his woman were unloading a vessel astatine a vessel ramp and the vas wouldn’t commencement truthful the upwind was blowing a small spot and the vas came separated from the trailer, truthful it started drifting crossed the water distant from the vessel ramp,” Trooper Ryan Griffith with Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.

Griffith said the 72-year-old was attempting to aquatics to his disabled and drifted vessel erstwhile helium went nether and ne'er resurfaced. He said Northwest Fire Crew members recovered his assemblage conscionable hours later.

“Dr. Derby was genuinely a large man, nary words tin explicit however genuinely atrocious I americium for what’s happened," Lasson said.

Derby was 1 of the founders of the Bailey Medical Center successful Owasso, wherever helium worked arsenic aesculapian manager of the anesthesiology program.

“He was highly respected, there’s immoderate unit members astatine the infirmary that person been determination since time 1 alongside him for 15 years, truthful helium volition beryllium greatly missed,” Lasson said.

His bequest goes acold beyond the aesculapian community. Derby served successful the State House for District 74 from 2016 to 2018. House Speaker Charles McCall and different representatives extended their condolences to his family.

McCall described him arsenic a antheral of honesty, character, and integrity. The existent typical for District 74, Mark Vancuren saying successful part:

"He was a large champion of galore causes of our metropolis and the authorities of Oklahoma. He is simply a person to many, an outstanding physician, and a dedicated household man. Whether it was to his country, his patients, oregon his church, Dr. Derby dedicated his beingness to serving others. Our prayers and deepest condolences spell retired to his family."

“We loved him, we emotion his family, and conscionable thing we tin bash for them, we would beryllium blessed to,” Lasson said.

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