Born to Douglas C. Jardine and Lillian A. Jardine in Colorado Springs. He was a lifelong resident of Colorado Springs other than attending college at University of Colorado-Boulder and a short stay out of state to be closer to his daughter and son. He was a family man, inventor, active in community affairs and a Seabee.
He was preceded in death by his parents Douglas Jardine, Lillian Jardine, sister Audrey Jardine and his son Timothy Jardine. He is survived by his life long love, high school sweetheart and only girl he ever dated Mary Lou, his daughter Cherie Jardine O’Connor (Whitney) of Hawaii, his son Greg Jardine (Jennifer) of Colorado Springs, daughter-in-law Diane Jardine of Colorado Springs, grandson Van Jardine of Arvada, CO and sister Ann Garrison of Roswell, NM.
He attended Steel School, North Junior High and Graduated from Colorado Springs High School (Palmer) in 1948. He graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1952 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. While attending college he received two scholarship awards. The James F Lincoln award for a paper on design of heat exchangers and one by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU. After graduating he returned to Colorado Springs to work for his father in the family owned Jardine Construction and Plumbing Company. He eventually took the reins of the business. At one point it was the largest underground cablevision contractor in the nation as this infrastructure was being established. He eventually liquidated the business after having “enough fun” during the gas moratorium and oil price spikes in the 1970’s. He then worked for Kaman Sciences, and later a Saudi Arabian company building desalinization plants in the Middle East. He finally worked as the project manager for the Powers Blvd expansion. He was active in the community and most recently was a community representative for a group charged with hazardous waste clean up at Fort Carson. He was also active in Habitat for Humanity, Silver Key and assisted Grace and St Stephen’s Church in upfitting their office building. In the early 1970’s he was an integral part of the City sponsored nonprofit The Phoenix Corporation to build a solar heated house for the parade of homes, which was the first solar heated house west of the Mississippi River. Doug designed the heat storage and heat pump used in the house, which was patented. He also had three other patents to his name ranging from a method to purify particulate out of liquid, heat reclaiming method and apparatus to an improved method to more economically utilize a heat pump.
He retired as a Commander from the US Naval Reserves Seabees in 1989 after decades of service. Besides his leadership in the Seabees he completed- Navy War College; Nuecleonics for the Navy; Naval Machinery Course and Atomic, Biological and Chemical Warfare courses.
Of all his accomplishments most notable was his devotion and his strength to his wife and family. Notably after his son Tim passed he served as a father figure for his grandson Van. He lived a long and fruitful life and will be missed. However, we’re all full of gratitude and blessings that he was in our life. He was one of the good guys!
A memorial at Grace and St. Stephen’s Church will be held January 18, 2020 at 11AM.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donation’s in Doug’s memory be made to Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region or the Navy SEAL Foundation.
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