Richard was born September 26, 1937 in Somerville, New Jersey. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 – 1959. He worked for American Airlines for 30 years & retired in 1993.
Richard is survived by his loving wife of 18 years Linda Darling, hos (3) children, Christine Lanton; Brian O’Connell and Danny O’Connell. Richard had (3) step-daughters, 3 grand kids, 6 great grand-kids including (9) step grand-kids & (9) step great grand-kids.
Funeral Services will be held at his best friends David Clevangers residence at Little Elm, Texas.
Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well.
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