Richard Page Kerrick

AFTER HIS FATHER WAS KILLED IN A HORSE ACCIDENT, DICK AND HIS MOTHER MOVED TO AMARILLO, TEXAS. TWELVE YEARS LATER HE MOVED WITH HIS MOTHER AND STEP-FATHER R. C. ALEXANDER TO OKLAHOMA CITY HE ATTENDED HARDING JR. HIGH AND CLASSEN HIGH SCHOOL, GRADUATING IN 1952. HE ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, AMARILLO JUNIOR COLLEGE, AND GRADUATED FROM OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY WITH A DEGREE IN FINANCE. HE WAS ALSO A GRADUATE OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BANKING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

DICK’S BANKING CAREER STARTED AT THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY IN 1954. IN 1967 HE WAS NAMED TO HEAD THE BANK’S DATA PROCESSING DEPARTMENT AND SERVED AS PRESIDENT UNTIL HE WAS ELECTED EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE BANK IN 1970. IN THIS POSITION HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE OPERATIONS DIVISION.

IN 1978 DICK LEFT FIRST NATIONAL TO BECOME EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF CONTINENTAL FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1986 AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER IN 1987.

FROM 1991 TO 1997 DICK WAS MARKETING DIRECTOR FOR PERSONAL TRUST SERVICES AT LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY. HIS REAL BANKING DREAM CAME TRUE WHEN HE LATER BECAME VICE-PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF MARKETING FOR THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED HERITAGE TRUST COMPANY WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 2011.

DURING DICK’S EARLY YEARS AT FIRST NATIONAL, HE MET A GIRL FROM EUFAULA, OKLAHOMA, ON A BLIND DATE. SHE WAS WORKING IN OKLAHOMA CITY AT WKY-TV. DICK AND BARBARA LOU KIRBY WERE MARRIED AUGUST 16, 1958. THEY WERE BLESSED WITH TWO DAUGHTERS, KIMBERLY ANN KERRICK MULLINS AND KATHRYN LYN KERRICK RIVES.

DICK HAD MANY PASSIONS. HE LOVED HIS CHURCH, , HIS FAMILY AND HIS FRIENDS. HE WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT HIS VOLUNTEER COMMITMENTS, INCLUDING WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AS AN ELDER AND TRUSTEE, AND BOARD PRESIDENT OF THE CHILDREN’S CENTER (WHICH HE LOVED SO DEARLY). HE ALSO SERVED AS AN OFFICER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BANKING, THE OKLAHOMA CLEARINGHOUSE ASSOCIATION, PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL, OKLAHOMA SAVING LEAGUE, PREVENT BLINDNESS OF OKLAHOMA, THE OKLAHOMA CITY ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL AND THE OKLAHOMA PLANNED GIVING COUNCIL.

HE IS A PAST PRESIDENT OF THE ARTS COUNCIL OF OKLAHOMA CITY. HE CO-CHAIRED THE 1984 SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL, THE 1995 WINTERTALES STORYTELLING FESTIVAL AND THE 2000 HEART BALL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION.

DICK WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS MOTHER, FATHER, AND STEP-FATHER.

HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE OF 56 YEARS, HIS TWO DAUGHTERS, SON-IN-LAW, DAVID RIVES, GRANDCHILDREN ASHLEY TAYLOR AND HUSBAND ZACK, MATT SNIDER AND WIFE JACEY, COLE SNIDER, MICHAEL AND CAROLINE MULLINS, DAVID, DYLAN, ANNA AND NATHAN RIVES, AND TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, ADDI CLAIRE AND ELLIE TAYLOR. HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY STEP-BROTHERS BOB ALEXANDER AND HIS WIFE, PENNY, AND ED ALEXANDER AND WIFE, DONNA.

A MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015 AT 3:00 P.M. AT WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 4400 N. SHARTEL, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73118.

IN LIEU OF FLOWERS THE FAMILY REQUESTS DONATIONS BE MADE TO THE CHILDREN’S CENTER (6770 N.W. 39th EXPRESSWAY, BETHANY, OK 73008), THE ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION, OKLAHOMA CITY ARTS COUNCIL OR A CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE. THE FAMILY WISHES TO THANK CAREGIVERS JEAN COMBES, MICHAEL ELSWORTH AND THE AUTUMN BRIDGE HOSPICE GROUP FOR TAKING SUCH GOOD CARE OF DICK DURING HIS FINAL DAYS.