Larry David Plumb was born on January 23, 1945 to Joseph Charles and Margery Ruth Stanford Plumb in Lawrence, Kansas.

His early experience with The Boy Scouts of America and 4-H preceded a lifetime fondness for the outdoors. He taught his boys the joy of camping and how to tie the best knots, spent hours capturing the outdoors on 35mm film, and would sometimes catch his limit on trout between work and dinner.

A tinkerer by nature, Larry enjoyed working with machines and computers and various electronics; he could fix just about anything, and he was often surrounded by machines and machine parts.

As a young man while attending Shawnee Mission North High School, Larry built Brunswick bowling alleys with his father, and later began his career work repairing printing machines at Xerox while attending Baker College and Findlay Engineering College. His 30+ year span with Xerox brought him to Denver, Spokane, Flagstaff, Prescott, and ultimately Scottsdale in the late seventies, where he planted roots and started a family.

Larry Plumb had a knack for social connection; his checkout line small talk was like no other. Close family recalls how Larry made people smile by turning brief social exchanges to smiles and laughter. Before and after retirement, that social energy manifested itself through volunteer work at church and a courier job with the Phoenix Fire Department.

Larry’s last days were spent with the family he loved dearly. He passed peacefully in the presence of close family and friends in the care of hospice. He is survived by his beloved wife, Donna, children Noah, Thom, and Laura, siblings Carol, Charlie, and Brad, and nine grandchildren. The family is at peace.

A service for close family and friends to celebrate Larry Plumb’s life is scheduled in May at his church home in Phoenix.