David Malcolm Bond

David Malcolm Bond, 88, of Draper, Utah, passed away peacefully on September 1, 2025. David was born on June 25, 1937, in Washington, D.C., to Robert W. Bond of Cleveland, Ohio, and Fern Bullock Bond of Pleasant Grove, Utah. In 1941, the Bond family moved to Bethesda, Maryland, where David grew up and would later begin raising his own family.

He graduated from Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in 1955 and from the University of Maryland with high honors in 1962 with a degree in accounting. After college graduation, he attended The George Washington University Law School. While in law school, he passed the Maryland CPA exam and served as an officer of the Beta Gamma Sigma fraternity. After he finished law school in 1965, he joined D.C. law firm Wilkes & Artis, where he practiced for 33 years, specializing in condominium law.

David was an avid genealogist. Gaining a love of genealogy from his mother, he spent much of his free time researching family history on his father’s line long before records became as easily accessible as they are now. He felt a strong responsibility for and kinship with his ancestors, and his emotions were always close to the surface whenever he shared favorite stories about them with his children and grandchildren. He volunteered for many years at the Washington D.C. Temple Family History Center, serving as the director for a year.

David loved American history and was very patriotic. He loved reading histories and biographies and traveled the country with his family seeing famous U.S. historical sites, LDS church history sites, presidential libraries, and Civil War battlefields. Two lifelong goals were visiting and photographing every state capitol building in the United States and all the graves of the deceased United States’ presidents (he was only missing Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush). On their long family drives from Maryland to Utah every other summer to visit family, David planned different routes across the U.S. to accomplish these goals.

A lover of nature, David could often be found working with the Boy Scout troops at his church, hiking the C&O canal, bird watching and gardening. There was always extra produce to share from his vegetable garden and fruit trees with friends and neighbors, and his children remember summer jobs of weeding and harvesting. Even with advanced Parkinson’s, he loved to be outdoors, making his last attempt at a challenging hike when he was 80 years old. He was very active throughout his life, but in the last several years of his life, he was limited in his mobility.

David was most proud of his family and of his membership and service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a fierce advocate for his children and grandchildren, and nothing made him happier than when all of his children were together. As a young man, he served a mission for his church in the Northern States Mission from 1958-1960. More recently, he and his wife served an 18-month mission in the England Leeds Mission assigned to the city of Sheffield. There he helped a burgeoning church branch of Slovakian refugees, visited Roman ruins, and toured castles in England and Scotland.

His family will always remember his dry sense of humor, his large console stereo where he played his favorite ragtime music, his paint by numbers, and his Louis L’ Amour westerns.

David is survived by his wife Barbara, with whom he celebrated 57 years of marriage in May, and five children, Karen Chadwick (Clint) of Olathe, Kansas; Robert (Jill) of Adamstown, Maryland; Matthew (Angie) of Portland, Oregon; Allan (Sandra) of Poolesville, Maryland; and Catherine Steel (Russell) of Draper, Utah. He also leaves behind 20 grandchildren: Amber (Cody), Ethan (Belle), Charlotte and Spencer Chadwick; Caroline, Elizabeth and William Bond; Amelia, Chase, Brigham and Cohen Bond; David, Alexander and Jacob Bond; Benjamin (Kati), Olivia and Robert Humes; Morgan, Whitney and Ethan Steel; and 1 great grandchild (Emery Humes). He is also survived by his brother, Richard (Marian) of Orem, Utah and was predeceased by his brother Paul and his parents, all of whom are buried in Maryland.

He will be buried in the Bond family plot in Parklawn Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland.