State Rep. David Dill has died after a battle with cancer. “Most important, he cared deeply for his family and spoke often about them with pride and love”. “I will miss him”.
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According to several political colleagues, Dill was recently diganosed and had gone to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester to receive chemotherapy.
Gov. Mark Dayton released a statement Sunday, saying Dill advocated tirelessly for the best interests of his district and the welfare of Minnesota. Governor Mark Dayton was among the many who praised Dill for his passion and committment to the people of northeastern Minnesota. Back then, Dill was in the minority for that particular project, and lawmakers knew that Dill was just that kind of legislator that could go out there and speak his mind about what he wanted to see get do ne.
Dill was also a consultant, commercial pilot and an aircraft and power plant mechanic. His work and advocacy on behalf sports men and women and our natural resource and tourist-based economy epitomized the reasons we live here.
Besides his son, Dill is also survived by his wife, Tucky.
Early this yr, Dill was appointed to the state’s Outside Heritage Council, Minnesotans a 12-member panel of legislators and personal residents who make key spending suggestions – usually rubber-stamped by the Legislature – on tips on how to spend greater than $100 million in Legacy gross sales tax dollars to guard the state’s treasured lakes, rivers, forests and prairies.
Dill was chairman of the House Lands Subcommittee and was the ranking Democrat on the Mining and Outdoor Recreation Policy Committee. “He worked to provide opportunity and improve the quality of life in northeastern Minnesota”.
In 2010 at age 55, acquired a brand new kidney.
Dill has also fought diabetes and heart-related issues and shed over 150 pounds after undergoing gastric bypass surgery in 2008.
“My mistake was not taking responsibility for my disease”, he told the newspaper, “and that started the onset of the kidney failure”. “The Ely area lost a great advocate in David Dill and our thoughts are with his family in this time of sorrow”. He visited Crane Lake seasonally since birth and made it his home starting in 1980.
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Earlier than election to his first of seven phrases within the Home, Dill served as metropolis administrator for the city of Orr for 11 years.
