Obituary

A memorial service is scheduled for Dec. 28 to remember David Wagner

Jameson, one of the early partners in the Del Taco fast-food restaurant

chain.

Jameson, a former Newport Beach resident, died Nov. 29 in Eugene,

Ore., of heart and kidney failure. He was 74.

Jameson joined Del Taco founder Ed Hackbarth as a partner in 1965. In

1966, they incorporated the company, which was then called Red-E Foods

Systems, to help franchise the restaurants.

They sold the company in 1975. Jameson may have been involved with the

company even after that sale, but it is not clear how or to what extent,

said Del Taco spokeswoman Barbara Caruso.

Jameson is also credited with the design of the Del Taco restaurant

building in the mid-1970s, she said.

“It has changed several times since then,” Caruso said. “But the

design of the building was believed to have been ahead of its time in

1976.”

Jameson, a Corona native, received his economics degree from the

University of Redlands. He married Penny Wickett in 1959, and they lived

for several years in Newport Beach and Corona del Mar.

After a divorce, Jameson moved to Oregon, where he founded Jamie’s

Great Hamburgers.

He is survived by sons Christopher, Peter and Robert Jameson;

daughters Jennifer Moffitt, Wendy Jameson and Susie Hopper; brother

Walter Jameson; sister Ann Dunham; and nine grandchildren.

A memorial service was held in Eugene on Dec. 4. The service will be

held at 2 p.m. Dec. 28 at the First Baptist Church in Corona. A private

interment will follow at Sunnyslope Cemetery in Corona.