Dr. David H. Rasmussen, M.D. died on December 11, 2018, in Scottsdale, AZ after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia. He was 78.
David was born on January 15, 1940 in Thief River Falls to Harold and Selma Rasmussen. He graduated from Lincoln High School in 1958. In 1963 he graduated from the University of North Dakota and received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1965. After spending three years in the U.S. Army, he did a 3 year residency in ophthalmology at the University of Colorado in Denver.
Dr. Rasmussen practiced ophthalmology at the Dakota Clinic in Fargo, North Dakota, for 24 years. After moving to Scottsdale, AZ in 1997, he practiced for another 10 years with Dr. Gary Mackman, M.D. in Phoenix. David retired in 2008.
Surviving are his wife of 55 years, Ruth Ann Jorgenson, (Lincoln High School ‘58), two sons, Steven and Michael, all of the Phoenix area. Also surviving are three brothers-in-law: Judge Larry Jorgenson, Mesa, AZ, Dr. Gerald Jorgenson, Golden Valley, and Phillip Jorgenson, Woodbury.
Preceding him in death was an infant son who died at birth in 1967.