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1944 ~ 2018
Salt Lake City, UT-Douglas Jack Diamond passed away peacefully surrounded by family on February 1, 2018. Douglas was born in Park City, Utah on February 22, 1944 to Jack and Lois Diamond. He graduated from South High School in 1962. Douglas enlisted with the Marine Corps from 1963 - 1967. He was a Vietnam Combat Veteran. In 1968 he became California Highway Patrol officer. Douglas retired in 1999 after 30 years of dedicated service. He was an avid fisherman and prospector. He was a true mountain man. His greatest love was spending time with family. Douglas is survived by his three sons, Troy, Todd, and Beau (Julie), his two grandsons Jesse and Jack, his granddaughter Meadow, his brothers Steve and Randy, nephew Mike, and niece Debbie. He is preceded in death by his parents, his brother Gary, and sister in law Ila Joan. A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 11 AM at Memorial Redwood Mortuary, 6500 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, Utah. He was the greatest father, grandfather, uncle, and brother to us all.
Published in Salt Lake Tribune on Feb. 4, 2018
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Gordon Shepherd
Dear Doug,
We became belated friends during our senior year at South. You played defensive end for the football team and I was the Scribe’s sports editor. We had a mutual friend in Mike Mitchell, who also played end and co-captained the team. The summer after graduation, the three of us, along with Dale Stagg and Richard Abelhouzen, worked briefly for a private garbage pick-up service in downtown Salt Lake. I will never forget the time I tossed a big garbage can over the side of the truck without looking and, regretfully, hit you in the head with it. You yelled in pain and said what the blankety-blank-blank! I thought I was a goner. But when you saw who the culprit was, you laughed and forgave me, saying a little bump on the head would just make you a better man. I never saw you after that. I heard you joined the marines and ended up surviving the war in Vietnam. I hated that, but if I ever had to share a foxhole in combat it would be with someone like you. And then after the war you went on to pursue a career with the California State Highway Patrol? Good. You’re the kind of tough but humane and decent kind of law enforcement officer our country still needs. Rest in peace, missed and belated friend.
Gordon Shepherd