Dean Derby, the Walla Walla High School grad who went on to a stellar career at Washington and would go on to play in the NFL, has died. Derby, a cornerback, led the NFL in interceptions and was named All Pro in 1959. He would finish his career with the Minnesota Vikings.
After running a successful business in the Minneapolis-St Paul area, Derby returned to Walla Walla in 2000 where he and his wife founded Spring Valley Winery.
Derby was a classmate of my mother's and I met him at a reunion picnic for her class of 1953. Dean Derby was 86.
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