In Memory

Richard Power



 
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07/01/12 11:31 PM #1    

R Lee Richan

Dick, I wish I knew what pressures caused your death back at the tender age of 16. I'd really enjoyed being with you and found you a solid guy; back in the day I guess we only darkly understand our own lives-- never mind the challenges our friends endure. So over four decades now you've stayed in my memory as a kindly, funny teenager, poised on the brink of great stuff and yet brought down by something I never knew.

Rest well, Dick. You were good and I only wish your posterity could know you, too.

Lee Richan

Salem, Utah

July 2012


07/26/12 12:11 AM #2    

Michael DeBernardi (DeBernardi)

I remember going to his house and how nice his Mother was.  I never heard about a Father so assume the parents were divorced.  Mostly I was friends with his sister Judy who was a year older, but I remember his brown suede leather jacket with the fringe, his tall leather boots (also with fringe), his long steps when he walked and his long, streaked blonde/light brown hair.  He was my only friend with long hair and it was kind of weird, but somehow it fit him.  He had this independent spirit like he knew more or understood the world better than the rest of us.  I remember how his jacket smelled; its right there in my memory - in some ways more than the boy himself.  Then the unthinkable.  Richard was gone by his own hand in his house.  We were still in high school.  I thought about it for months or years, but never understood what had gone wrong. To this day I have absolutely no idea why an intelligent, energetic, personable and handsome young man would choose to stop living.  I can't remember seeing his sister or mother ever again, and always wondered what happened to them and where they went.  I remember passing his house many times afterwards and I would always look to see if his family was there and they never were.  It's over 40 years later, oceans apart and the mystery continues and I'm still thinking about him - and still have no answers.  

 

 


08/02/19 08:47 AM #3    

Nancy Mack (Millice)

I was so glad to see this post today.  I have thought of Dick very often over the years as well and was so saddened by his death as we all were and wondered what might have been done to prevent it.  I know he is resting in peace with other buds we lost too soon from our class of 72.   Healing thoughts to all!

 


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