A bishop for the Mormon church in Dublin who is also a Scotts Miracle-Gro Company executive died in a rock-climbing accident in the Hocking State Forest on Saturday.

Paramedics pronounced Timothy M. Watabe, 49, of Dublin, dead at the scene of the accident at Edison Hollow, which is located off of Big Pine Road. The area is a popular spot for rock climbing and rappelling within the sprawling Hocking Hills State Park.

Watabe was a bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Dublin. He also was a Boy Scouts leader through the church.

Watabe had accompanied scouts to go rappelling Saturday, a spokesman for Boy Scouts of America told WBNS-TV (Channel 10).

Since 2012, Watabe has been market intelligence and risk-management lead for The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company in Marysville, according to his Linked In profile.

Before that, he was an executive with Procter & Gamble for more than five years.

He is survived by his wife, Jolene, and four children. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Rutherford Funeral Home in Powell.

Paul Ludlow, who identifies himself as a longtime friend who has known Watabe since they both attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, has started a GoFundMe page to help defray the family's funeral expenses.

"He was as caring and concerned for others' well being and success as he was for living life to the fullest, which for Tim was really one in the same," Ludlow's tribute on the page says.

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