Jon Alexander
Douglas
Jon "Jack" Douglas died in his sleep at his home in Bel Air on
27 July
2010. He was 73.
Born September 10, 1936, in Hot Springs,
Arkansas, the only child of Dortha and Gordon Douglas, Jon Douglas
moved with his family to Santa Monica, California, in 1944.
He attended Santa Monica High School, where he played football,
tennis and basketball. In 1958, he was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from
Stanford University, where he was quaterback on the football team
and the school's first All-American in tennis. He served in the U.S.
Marine Corps for three years. In 1961 and 1962, Douglas represented
the United States on the Davis Cup Tennis team, his most memorable
win coming in '61 against the legendary Italian, Fausto Gardini, in
front of a crazed partisan crowd in Rome.
In 1971, he
co-founded Jon Douglas Company Realtors with Dan Emmett and opened
an office on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood. With a carefully
cultivated upscale image, reflected in its classic-mansion logo and
underscored by the words The Sign of Respect, the company became the
preeminent luxury residential real estate firm in Greater Los
Angeles. In 1995, Jon Douglas Company merged with Prudential as
Prudential Jon Douglas Company, with offices in all key high-end
California cities. The firm was acquired by Coldwell Banker in
September 1997. By that time it had nearly 70 offices and 2,500
sales associates.
Jon A. Douglas is survived by his four sons and six
grandchildren: Mark, his wife, Joan, and their children,
Matthew, Lauren and Caroline; Brad, his wife, Courtney, and
their children, Wylie and Campbell; Jon Jr. and his son, Payton;
and James (son of Martha Hunt). Additionally, Douglas is
survived by his former spouse, Sue Ellen Douglas, the mother of
his first three children.
Any contributions will be
gratefully accepted
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