DEPUTIES CHIP IN FOR FALLEN FRIEND'S KIN.Byline: Erin Gebroe Daily News Staff Writer When sheriff's Deputies Jerry Underwood and Michael Tunget played golf, Tunget would undoubtedly learn something about etiquette etiquette, name for the codes of rules governing social or diplomatic intercourse. These codes vary from the more or less flexible laws of social usage (differing according to local customs or taboos) to the rigid conventions of court and military circles, and they . ``He didn't like it when I walked on his line,'' Tunget said, recalling his colleague and friend. ``He'd say, Thanks - I like puttin' through craters.'' To help remember all the good times they spent with Underwood, who died of cancer at age 51 in September 1997, and to support his family, deputies at the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. sheriff's station on Wednesday presented $2,300 each to Underwood's widow, Kerrysue, and to the City of Hope. The station raised the money at a Nov. 30 golf tournament at Valencia Country Club.Tunget and another golf buddy, Deputy Corry Cline cline, in biology, any gradual change in a particular characteristic of a population of organisms from one end of the geographical range of the population to the other. , organized the tournament, in which 152 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. employees, friends and community members played. The Underwoods' son, Taylor, a third-grader at Plum Canyon Elementary School elementary school: see school. , didn't swing any clubs. Instead, he served as the official golf cart driver. Taylor has been in carts in one way or another since he was born. ``His daddy used to put his car seat in a golf cart when he was a baby,'' Kerrysue Underwood said. She said the Sheriff's Department had a surprise for her at the tournament. ``At the dinner that night, unbeknownst to Taylor and I, all these generous deputies and faces that I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. presented us with all the scrolls, retirement plaques and his badge, which were items he would have been receiving had he made it to his retirement, six months after his death,'' she said. An avid golfer, Jerry Underwood loved traveling to other states and countries to play. The place he liked the best, however, was only a few miles from his home. ``His favorite spot was Elkins Ranch in Fillmore, because that's where his friends were,'' Kerrysue Underwood said. The donation to the family will be put into the Taylor Underwood Taylor Underwood was born October 1, 1785 He was born the son of John Underwood an African Slave brought over to the US. Taylor was one of the first slaves to try to escape his rights by creating a underground army. Trust, which several deputies created as a college fund for the boy after his father died. Plans are to make the golf tournament an annual event, with next year's edition set for Nov. 29. And with any luck, Tunget won't be walking on anyone's line. Underwood ``taught me everything,'' Tunget said. ``I'm very much up on etiquette now.'' |
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