Dr. Melvin J. Bagley, a 60-year resident of Henderson, Nevada and summer resident of Pinedale since 1972, died at his home in Pinedale, Friday, August 28, 2015, at the age of 91. Melvin (aka "Mel", "Heller" and "Doc") was born in Green River, Wyoming on January 1, 1924 to Hawley and Adelila Hogensen Bagley. The third of five children, he grew up in a loving, musical and multi-talented family. At the age of 18 he entered the military where he served in the navy during WWII in the South Pacific. He thereafter married the beautiful Barbara Gibson, who he met while attending the University of Utah. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Los Angeles College of Optometry in 1955. Subsequently he moved to Henderson where he became Henderson's first optometrist. His marriage to Barbara produced four daughters over a three-year span. A true visionary seeing the potential for growth of the Las Vegas Valley, Mel purchased and independently developed the Calico Ridge Subdivision in Henderson. He later established several custom home developments in his beloved Pinedale. Beginning in 1967, the Bagley's began visiting, and unsurprisingly fell in love with, the Pinedale area when they spent several weeks each summer at the Circle S Ranch. In 1972, the Bagley family built their summer home in Pinedale: the - - A, named after Mel's wife Barbara. With his teenaged daughters and father-in-law as his construction crew, the home was finished in one summer. He would often tease after that the girls would work a couple of hours and then go change into their bathing suits wanting to head to Fremont Lake. Without wasting a moment of any day, Mel also was a single-handicap golfer, a painter, a piano player (by ear) and a fisherman. He loved hosting parties and playing clever games and contests he originated. Melvin practiced optometry until 1998 and proceeded to travel throughout the world and write books. Five of these books were published. The Bagley family was blessed to have such a unique, fun-loving and motivating father and grandfather. Dr. Bagley is survived by his four daughters: Nancy McGuire (Pat), of Pinedale, Mari Bochanis (Chris Cookson), of Henderson and Pinedale, Hawley (Rob) Doyle of Pinedale, and Bobbi (Dr. Jerry) Hendricks of Henderson; grandchildren Parris Crooks, Jessica (Joe) Stull, Athena Bochanis, Andrew (Dana) McGuire, Hannah (Cody) McKinney, Jeri (Clayton) Melinkovich, Theo Bochanis, Calli Adamson, Aris Bochanis, Jaylin Hendricks and Gabriel Hendricks; great-grandchildren, Roxanne and Portia Melinkovich; sister Jeanne (LeRon) Low of Coaldale, Alberta, Canada, and numerous adoring nieces and nephews. He is also survived by, and his family is forever grateful to, his loving care-giver for the past six years, Maria (May) Holland. He was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, parents, his brothers Allan and Gerald ("Jiggs") and sister-in-law June Bagley, sister A. Marie Bagley; and granddaughter, Hayley Hendricks. Services will be held Saturday, September 12th in Henderson, Nevada at the Palm Mortuary Boulder Highway at 11 a.m. A visitation will be held at Palm on Friday, September 11th from 4-7 p.m.