Robert Eugene Lindsey, DDS, a dentist and former mayor of Salem, Ore., died May 21, reports the Statesman Journal.
Dr. Lindsey died from congestive heart failure at Salem Hospital. He had been living independently at the family's hazelnut farm until about a week before his death. He was 93.
Dr. Lindsey attended Creighton (Neb.) University School of Dentistry and then moved to Salem in 1957 to start his own dental practice. He became active in a citywide water fluoridation effort and was a member of the Citizen for Better Health Through Fluoridation committee that helped put the issue on the ballot.
From 1973 to 1977, Dr. Lindsey served as mayor.
"I always found that his principal goal was to serve all of Salem, not just part of it," Ellen Lowe, who served on the city council during that time, told the Statesman Journal. "He was a great public servant."
Dr. Lindsey was also a farmer, entrepreneur and father to six children.
The family has said Dr. Lindsey didn't want to have a service, but did request that his ashes be spread in the wilderness.