Richard Earl Harthun

Resident of Sun City, Ca

Passed away on February 22, 2021

At Redlands Community Hospital at 1:15 A.M.

At age 95.

Richard Harthun was born in

Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1926.

Adopted at 3 months of age and raised by adoring parents,

(late) Emil A. and Lillian A. Harthun, as an only child.

Richard was a celebrated WW2 veteran.

Enlisting in the Army Air Force in 1943 at age 17.

He was awarded the Phillipine Liberation Ribbon with a bronze star,

and the Air Force Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf clusters. He served in

the Bismarck Archipelago Sea Battles and flew missions to New

Guinea, Chine, Burma, India, Taiwan and Japan; and served on an

observer mission to see the first atomic bomb dropped on Japan on

August 6, 1945 at Hiroshima.

Then being honorably discharged as Staff Sergeant, January 26, 1946

just weeks before his 20th birthday.

He went on to Graduate University of Wisconsin, Whitewater in 1952,

and taught at many High Schools in Illinois and California.

He further became a very successful Prudential Insurance Agent that

spanned over 30 years with numerous accolades including National

sales achievements many years before retiring. In addition to Richard

serving his local community by serving on the board of directors of the

Sun City Civic Association, he was loved by many of his daily business

contacts and neighbors for being funny, stubborn, a story teller, very

organized, determined to always be his very best, a published writer

and a character who really resisted giving up running his own errands

or just going for a ride around the neighborhood, (blindly) in his trusty

golf cart.

Loving husband of the late Carol Sue Harthun

And father of surviving children

Son, Cary Harthun

Daughter, Robin (Harthun) Willems

Son, Jason Harthun

Daughter, Heidi (Harthun) Hilliard,

With 6 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren

The family of Richard Harthun wish to thank all who knew him

For being there as friends to the man we care so much for.