Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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Uncle Dick was a guide and mentor for me in my teens. He was always upbeat and ready for some fun activity. For a while, monkeys were a focal point, since he and Carol had two squirrel monkeys, Kip and Jenny, and my mother had one named Willy. There were many family visits with monkey playdates.
Dick enjoyed aviation immensely, and was a flight instructor at a local airfield. He took me up in a Cessna and showed me the bird's eye view of the landscape. Dick loved telling me stories about his days as a Navy pilot, such as flying along the Distant Early Warning line out of the Navy base in Argentia, Nova Scotia, in the Cold War days.
Dick was always willing to help and lighten the load for other people. I will remember him fondly.
