Fire trucks, police cars and ambulances packed the parking lot of the First Assembly of God church in North Little Rock on Wednesday for the Funeral of MEMS Major Dean Douglas.
He was remembered for his public service.
“Dean was committed to this way of life and because of it he touched thousands of lives,” one speaker noted. Douglas died in a bicycle accident while working the Little Rock Marathon.
He served in the Navy, as a firefighter, as a paramedic and was given full honors for all of those times of service.
Several speakers mentioned Douglas was a man of many hats.
“See in Dean’s case the hat didn’t make the man, the man definitely made the hat,” someone said.
Douglas was remembered as a kind soul who loved hard and lived life to the fullest.