Keith Shumway, originally from Fillmore, is survived by his wife Lisa and 3-month-old baby. He was applying to medical school, Hinton said.

Bird said the clinic will remain closed today and Tuesday. Employees do not want to return to work until after Labor Day. They may work, however, on an emergency basis later this week.

Sunday afternoon, the living room at Dr. Lansing Ellsworth's house was filled with purple mums, yellow roses and fuchsia carnations that friends and family had sent.

Ellsworth was committed to his patients and family, friends said, but he was approachable and lacked pretense.

"He could be working serious, quiet, efficient and quick, then say something that kind of threw everyone off and would be really, really funny," said his widow, LynAnn Ellsworth.

"Lanny" was born and raised in Mesa, Ariz. His father was a farmer. That taught Ellsworth a work ethic. Ellsworth planned to farm full time after retirement from medicine.

Ellsworth spent his undergraduate years at Brigham Young University. He earned a veterinary degree at Washington State University and a medical degree at the University of Washington. He completed residencies at the University of Arizona in Tucson in pathology and dermatology. He had four children. Dallin was his second child.

Never one to completely take a vacation, his friend Matt Denhalter said Ellsworth always took a box of charts on vacations and tried to work three hours each day.

Ellsworth was popular among patients, said Dr. Bryan Ellsworth, his cousin and a urologist in St. George.

With only six or seven dermatologists in Cedar City, the medical community is feeling a loss, he said. Lansing Ellsworth travelled to patients in Delta, Kanab, Richfield, Moab, Fillmore, Page, Ariz.; Ely, Nev.; and Caliente, Nev. Sometimes he made house calls, especially when the patients were elderly.

"It used to be everybody had to drive to Provo or to St. George to be seen," Bryan Ellsworth said. "He completely changed southern Utah's dermatology availability more than anybody else."

Son Dallin wanted to follow his father's footsteps into medicine. Dallin Ellsworth spent the summer polishing his personal statement, part of his application to medical schools at the University of Washington, the University of Utah, Baylor University, and a few schools in the East, "so he could be near church history sites," Kamber Ellsworth said.

Her husband was bright, she said. He began college at BYU, was finishing at Southern Utah University, and was expected to earn a four-year degree in just three years.

At Cedar City High School, Dallin Ellsworth was active in student government. He played football for a year and wrestled all four years. As a teen, he shot up to 6 feet 2 inches. "He wrestled under 110 his senior year," said sister Marie Skinner of Tucson, Ariz., while the family laughed.

Kamber Ellsworth said she doesn't know what to name their son.

"We had a few (names) we had agreed on, but we were just going to wait until the hospital thing," she said.

Dallin Ellsworth didn't want their son named after him. "But I think he might be OK," she said, "with the circumstances."

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Contributing: Aaron Falk

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E-mail: lhancock@desnews.com