Amusement park designer and artist Jerry Deagen dies at 62

DECATUR - Jerry Deagen, an artist whose works have been seen at parks across the country, died at his home in suburban Atlanta. He was 62. <br> <br> Deagen&#39;s projects included a restoration of a historic carousel at Six Flags Over Georgia and the Quarry Exhibit at Stone Mountain Park, Georgia&#39;s top tourist attraction with 4 million visitors per year. <br> <br> A native of Detroit, Deagen helped design pieces at Six Flags in St. Louis before being hired as chief designer for the park outside Atlanta. <br> <br> His first project there was a painstaking reconstruction of the five-row carousel that once graced Chicago&#39;s Riverview Park. <br> <br> Deagen also devoted much of his time to paintings, including charcoal nudes and watercolors of Newfoundland scenes. <br> <br> Deagen died Friday of brain cancer. <br> <br> Survivors include his sister, Caroline Kambeitz of Caseville, Mich., and his brother, John T. Deagen of Whitmore Lake, Mich.