Obituaries Related to "Richard" from New York Times Archive
Paid Notice: Deaths BARNETT, RICHARD E.
BARNETT--Richard E. 76, on April 9, 2004. Graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law. Lawyer and business executive with Modern Film and Movies En Route. Beloved husband, father and grandfather. Husband of Harriet (nee Schottland) Barnett, Dobbs Ferry, NY, father to Pamela Bakal, James and Thomas Barnett, grandfather to Jennifer, Justin, Douglas, Kate and Matthew, brother of Carol Dickman. Funeral 12 noon Monday, EdwardsDowdle Funeral Home, 64 Ashford Ave., Dobbs Ferry, NY (Saw Mill Exit 17). ...
Richard Lyons, 57, a Founder of the Subversive Band Negativland, Dies
Since the late 1970s, Mr. Lyons’s subversive media-hacking band has functioned more like a collective with a fluctuating membership.
Richard D. Lyons, Versatile Times Reporter, Dies at 84
Mr. Lyons covered science, Congress and the United Nations in nearly 30 years at The New York Times.
Richard Gordon, Astronaut Who Reached for Moon and Very Nearly Made It, Dies at 88
Mr. Gordon undertook a harrowing spacewalk in 1966 and orbited the moon in 1969, but he never achieved his dream of walking on the lunar surface.
Richard Gilder, Donor to Parks, Museum and History, Dies at 87
A successful investor, he was a major benefactor of Central Park, the New-York Historical Society and the Museum of Natural History.
Richard Pittman, Marine Who Fended Off Vietnam Ambush, Dies at 71
Mr. Pittman earned the Medal of Honor for charging into heavy North Vietnamese fire to aid wounded fellow Marines.
Paid Notice: Deaths PITTS, JESSE RICHARD
PITTS--Jesse Richard, Charlottesville, VA on August 2, 2003. Harvard '41, Harvard Ph.D '58. WW II B-17 bomber pilot. Professor Emeritus Sociology Oakland University, MI. Tocqueville Review founder and editor. Survived by his wife Monique Bonnier Pitts, daughter Florence, sons Oliver, Alan, Christopher and four grandchildren. Graveside services August 6 at 11AM, Monticello Memory Gardens, Charlottesville.
Paid Notice: Deaths WELLMAN, RICHARD VANCE
WELLMAN--Richard Vance, 82, a nationally recognized figure in the field of probate law who helped transform the legal landscape in the area of trusts and estates, died on June 3, 2005 in Athens, GA. Robert Cotton Alston Professor of Law at the University of Georgia Law School from 1974 to 1990, Wellman was the principal drafter of the Uniform Probate Code designed to make the probate process cheaper and more efficient. He worked tirelessly to promote the code from the time it was first promulgat ...
Richard Wade, 87, Urban Historian, Dies
Dr. Wade helped put cities on the map as an academic subject and advised Democratic candidates including Adlai Stevenson, Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern.
Richard Bartlett, Legislator Who Fought New York’s Death Penalty, Dies at 89
Mr. Bartlett oversaw a reorganization of the state’s courts and led a commission that virtually abolished capital punishment in 1965.
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Charles Norman Shay, Tribal Elder and World War II Hero, Dies at 101
As a 19-year-old medic, he won a Silver Star for his service during D-Day. Later, in the Korean War, he earned a Bronze Star.
Dominik Duka, Czech Cardinal Jailed Under Communism, Dies at 82
While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative voice in Rome.
Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies at 84
As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s.
Yegor Ligachev, Gorbachev’s No. 2 Who Turned Foe, Is Dead at 100
As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order.
Eugene Hasenfus, Gunrunner Who Exposed Iran-Contra Plot, Dies at 84
He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.
Reginald T. Jackson, A.M.E. Bishop Who Helped Sway Votes, Dies at 71
Influential from New Jersey to Georgia, he was part of a long tradition among Black clergy of fighting bias and getting out the vote. “No vote, no clout,” he’d say.
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