Dear Hilda and family,
Please accept my sincere condolences for Dick’s loss. I first met Dick when I worked in Sarnia Refinery from 1972 – 75. Then I worked in his group in Calgary from 1978-82 on the Cold Lake Mega Project. What a great boss he was! No politics with Dick running the show. In 1981, my wife Micheline, who passed away from Lymphoma in 2012, and children Christine & Mark, had the great pleasure of looking after Mandy while your family was in Seattle with Brian. The kids loved that dog and we took her everywhere with us. Mandy was the major reason why we got a dog of our own the next year! I worked with Stephen at Imperial in the mid-nineties and still see him occasionally in the Crowfoot Co-op. I retired early at 55 in 2002. I’m very happy that I did, as it turns out, because it gave Micheline and I ten years of travelling to Europe, spending 4+ months every summer at our Lake cottage in New Brunswick and, most of all, spending a lot of time with our 4 grand kids before Micheline passed. I’m very happy that Dick had a good long retirement with his family and was able to spend a lot of time at his hobbies. All my best wishes for the future.
