Sunday, February 22, 2009
Elliott T. "Tom" Dimond Jr., 80, who since 1964 had owned and operated Carrollton Products Co., an industrial
packaging firm in Alexandria, died Feb. 7 at Inova Fairfax Hospital of complications from heart surgery. He was an
Alexandria resident.
Mr. Dimond worked as a salesman for the former T.A. Cantwell & Co. paper firm in the District from 1953 until he started
his own business.
Elliott Thomas Dimond Jr., a native Washingtonian, graduated from Gonzaga College High School in 1946. He received
a bachelor's degree in economics from Georgetown University in 1953. He served in the Navy from 1946 to 1948 and
again during the Korean War.
He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alexandria and was active in the Old Town Civic Association and the
Old Town Walled Garden Club.
His wife of 50 years, Andrea Fischer Dimond, died in 2006.
Survivors include three children, Anne Marie Green of Salem, Va., Stephanie Dimond of Alexandria and Andrew Dimond
of Arlington; three brothers, Francis Dimond of Kensington, Paul Dimond of Washington and Anthony Dimond of Elk
Grove, Calif.; four sisters, Mary Hagen of Gaithersburg, Regina Myers of Greenville, S.C., Maureen Emerson of
Powhatan, Va., and Sheila Merrifield of Essex Junction, Vt.; and seven grandchildren.
-- Lauren Wiseman
Elliott T. 'Tom' Dimond Jr.
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