Mr. Richard "Dick" Edmund

Richard A. “Dick” Edmund entered his eternal resting place after suffering medical complications on Thursday, the 15th of January 2015, having been admitted to Memorial City Hospital earlier in the week.

He was born in Lockridge Township of Jefferson County, Iowa, on the 14th of January 1927, to parents Amos Daniel and Minnie Louise Edmund and was the youngest of six siblings (Rudy, Beth, Bea, Lewis “Park” – all deceased – and Louise, surviving). Dick married (and is survived by) his wife, Dorothy “Dot” von Ach Hertzler, with whom he was wed on the 22nd of November 1950. They have three children, Dan Edmund and his wife Rebecca, Karen Edmund Cooper and her husband Steve, and William Charles “Bill” Edmund (deceased). He is also survived by three grandchildren, Laura Cooper Gilles and her husband David, Carl Cooper and his wife Alissa, Daniel Edmund, Jr., Alpa Edmund; and numerous nephews and nieces.

After graduating from Fairfield (IA) High School in 1945, Dick enlisted in the Army Air Corps., serving in a number of areas, including Biloxi, Mississippi, Denver, Colorado, and Chanute Field, Illinois, before serving one year in the Army of Occupation in Japan after WWII. Following his service duties, Dick graduated in 1950 from Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, with a Bachelor of Arts in Geology. In 1951, he received his Master of Science in Geology from the University of Iowa. He worked as an exploration geologist for the next 45 years with Stanolind Oil and Gas, Pan American and Amoco companies and consulted for several companies and independents, including Guernsey Petroleum and Chieftain International. He worked in Shreveport, Louisiana from 1951–57, Oklahoma City from 1957–64, Jackson, Mississippi from 1964–65. and New Orleans from 1965–95. He was a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists since 1952, and is a Certified Petroleum Geologist. He was a member of the New Orleans Geological Society and the Society of Independent Professional Earth Sciences, and served terms as President of both organizations.

He retired in 1998 and in 2006 moved from New Orleans to The Buckingham retirement community in Houston. Before moving to Texas, Dick and his wife were active participants at Love Lutheran Church in New Orleans for 40 years.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from one until two o’clock in the afternoon on Thursday, the 22nd of January, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston, where a memorial service celebrating Dick’s life, led by Pastor Michael Fry of Grace Presbyterian Church is to immediately follow.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial donations be directed to The New Sweden Chapel, care of Marilyn Quick, 1014 Hillcrest Drive, Fairfield, IA, 52556, for preservation of the Edmund family’s original church and cemetery, a historic site in Iowa.