Funeral services to be held for St. George dispatch manager who died Tuesday

ST. GEORGE — Funeral services for Jeff Dial, communications manager for the Washington County 911 dispatch center, who died Tuesday morning after suffering undisclosed medical complications, will be held Saturday.

Services will begin at 2 p.m. at the St. George LDS Institute of Religion meetinghouse at 943 E. 400 South.

Dial, 56, began experiencing pains while responding to a standoff on I-15 near mile marker 16 Monday afternoon. He was transported to Dixie Regional Medical Center, where he later died.

He was a great man who went to great lengths to establish and improve emergency communications in southern Utah, assistant city manager Marc Mortensen told KCSG News in St. George. 

"He was Mr. 911. He did a superb job for the city and police department," Mortensen said. "He will be missed by all who knew him. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family as they deal with these difficult circumstances."