Zona, he was sick for some time and he seemed to get worse after his mom passed away sometime ago IMO. His last 2 months were spent in a hospital here in the US. I could not find out where he was at here in the US. I became good friends with Dave over time. This is part of an email Bruce sent out,
There will be two ceremonies for those who can attend you are more thank welcome to join. There will be one ceremony takes place in Phoenix in November where David's surviving family member's will put part of his ashes to rest next to his late mother. And the other ceremony will take place here in Rocky Point, not sure of the date as of the moment, where we, his Penasco family will set the reaming ashes out to sea on a scale model of a shrimp boat that we had handmade for him......