Still trying to find his obituary but this part was in the Pantagraph from an article about his step-mother. He died on 6/14/2005

BLOOMINGTON -- The widow of a former Bloomington bank president had hoped she'd die before a deadline set by the federal government forced her to leave the couple's cabin in a national park high in the Colorado mountains.

But that was not to be, and Betty Dick, 83, formerly of Bloomington and Decatur, has until July 16 to move out unless Congress comes to her aid or the National Park Service reconsiders its decision to evict her.

A bill currently awaits action in the U.S. House to allow her to live out her days in the cabin in Rocky Mountain National Park in rural Grand Lake, Colo., where her closest neighbors are moose and elk.

"It's so picturesque, it's so beautiful here," said Dick, widow of Fred Dick, who retired as president and CEO of the former The People's Bank in Bloomington in 1981. "I live in a natural preserve."

The two-bedroom cabin with guest cabin and rustic barn is located at an altitude of 9,000 feet and bordered on three sides by the Continental Divide.

The headwaters of the Colorado River flow by the front door. Betty Dick lives there from mid-May to mid-October each year. She winters in Arizona.

Wednesday was a poignant day for her as she remembered how the 20- plus acres she calls "the family compound" was a frequent vacation spot for relatives. They included her husband's oldest son, her stepson George Frederick Dick IV, who was known as Tad. A lawyer in British Columbia, he died Tuesday at age 61.

"It's just one thing after another," said Betty Dick.

Tad Dick was a teenager when Fred Dick and his first wife bought the ranch before the federal government began buying land in the area for a national park in the 1970s. Today, the park encompasses more than 265,000 acres.