Douglas E. McIntosh passed away at his home in Portland, OR. after a serious illness. He was 71 years old.

Doug was born and raised in Richland, Washington, the “Atomic City”, where his dad worked at the Hanford Site. Douglas attended Richland parochial and public schools, including Christ the King school and Chief Joseph Junior High, graduating from Columbia High School in 1972. After graduation, he joined his dad working the family farm, Sun Ray Orchards near Benton City, while attending Columbia Basin College. In 1973 He joined the US Army and served in Germany as a medic. After being honorably discharged in 1975, he moved to the Tacoma area to complete his education at Ft. Steilacoom Community College. He moved to Portland and worked as a cook for six years, then worked in the private security industry in downtown Portland, retiring in 2012.

Doug led a private, self-supporting, modest, honorable life and never married. He had an acerbic and shrewd view of  life in downtown Portland, having lived there for so many years. Doug published a fairly successful apocalyptic fantasy genre novel “Day of the Dogs” on Amazon in 2013 and attained some notoriety with his blog “Doomer Doug”.

His parents predeceased him and he is survived by his sister Kathy in Portland and his brother John in Kennewick, as well as a large collection of nieces and nephews, to whom he was always affectionately known as “Uncle Buck”. Douglas will be interred in Willamette National Cemetery.