SCHILLING, Richard Robert III, on August 18, 2020. Loving brother of Mia Grogan and Andrew Schilling, and loving brother-in-law of John and Margaret. Adored uncle to Jack, Isobel, Catherine, Emilie, and Henry. Devoted son of the late Joan Edmonds Schilling and Richard Robert Schilling, Jr. of Brooklyn, New York, and Spring Lake, New Jersey. Cherished and loyal friend to so many. Talented producer, editor, actor, singer, dancer, and tennis player. Six-time Academy Award nominee. Former producer of One Life to Live; Loving; Passions; General Hospital: Night Shift; and most recently Great Performances. Proud graduate of Xavier High School (‘82) and the College of the Holy Cross (‘86).
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered on Saturday, August 22 at 10 am at Saint Francis Xavier Church in Manhattan. Given the COVID pandemic, his funeral mass will be limited to family, while friends are asked instead to join the family in spirit and by live stream https://youtu.be/hJGNKpna_-4. The recording will also be available later for anyone who is not free at that time. He will be laid to rest beside his parents at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Bowery Mission, www.Bowery.org.
Richard’s life was too short, but it was a wonderful life because he was loved deeply by his family and by so many close friends. “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” -- It’s a Wonderful Life.
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