Private graveside services were held Monday for Dee Livingood, 57, a well-known contractor and community leader who died early June 3, 1995, of cancer at his Ogden home.
The services and burial for Mr. Livingood, founder of Big-D Construction Corp., were held at Lindquist's Washington Heights Memorial Park.Mr. Livingood entered the construction business while in high school when he worked on the installation of a new runway at Hill Air Force Base.
In 1967 at age 30 he started Big-D Construction with $1,000 in capital, building the firm into a widely respected business with annual revenues topping $160 million. The firm is Utah's largest construction company.
Among the company's major projects are a vast network of Smith's supermarkets in Utah, Nevada, Arizona and California and Smith's distribution and processing centers throughout the West. The firm just completed work on the Allied Health Building at Weber State University.
Despite his illness Mr. Livingood remained involved in the preparation of the successful bids on the $23 million Downtown Ogden Performing Arts and Convention Center, the $13 million reconstruction project of the former ZCMI building in Ogden that will become new county offices and the $68 million courts complex in Salt Lake City.
He was a supporter of such organizations as the Make-A-Wish Foundation for terminally ill children and Your Community Connection. An endowed pro-fes-sor-ship was established in his and his wife's names last year at WSU.