Ninfa Bertuglia
- May 4th, 2023
Dear Richard, remember you well. Very tall and handsome. Our lockers were just a foot away from each other and our walk home from school was in the same direction. We shared one or two dates. You did meet my parents and you were so nervous you rushed past me to greet them and you knocked over the X-mas tree in the living room. All was forgiven though. Rest In Peace Dearest Richard
Robert Junghandel
- April 22nd, 2014
Always a class act. He will be missed by all who knew him.
Carol Sue Egan
- September 14th, 2011
Richard was my first friend ever, when we started kindergarten at School Street School and he was a dear friend all through school. We had plans to meet, which will have to wait now until some day we are all together. He was a great person and a listener. I was glad to reconnect with him not too long ago on Face Book. Our FB relationship was short, but our friendship lasted many years and I am so very glad of that. Rest in Peace, dear friend.
Darron Castiglione
- July 13th, 2010
I remember Dick when we called him Richie back in High School; he was a great friend then and after reconnecting after many, many years he still was the great friend I knew back when. He could make me laugh till I cried; he recent visit here with Ron Faso and Manny Freedman were one of the great times I have enjoyed with friends. He is sorely missed; I still can't believe that he is gone. Rest in Peace Old Friend, hope to see you again some time, some place cause I know you'll make me laugh and be happy.
Darron Castiglione
- July 9th, 2010
Dick, I remember him when we called him Richie, was a wonderful friend; he could make me laugh til I cried. His sense of humor and wit are things that I will always fondly recall. I was most fortunate to have had him and Ron Faso as house guests and we just had a wondeful time. Manny Freedman was here also and it was just a great time. Dick will be sorely missed by so many; I hope to meet with him again, sometime, someplace and I just know he'll make be laugh.
Rest in Peace Dear Friend,
Darron
Manny Freedman
- July 8th, 2010
I'd always appreciated Dick's "dry" sense of humor throughout high school and, after reuniting with him recently on the web and in person, as a "serious" adult.
Dick had the ability to tell a story, whether real or not, in a manner that picturesquely would draw me in and involve me. As a writer for a newspaper, this talent was obviously a meal ticket.
I am so glad that Dick had taken the time in the recent past to visit our mutual friend, Darron Castiglione, in Beech Mountain, NC. I met with them and Ron Fasso, with whom Dick was traveling. I had no idea at the time that that was both our reunion and last meeting.
One of the last memories I'll have of him was a brief discussion as to whether he should make the switch from "Dick" to "Rich." Well, whichever, I'll surely miss him.
Artie Hudson
- July 7th, 2010
I am sorry to hear this news. Richie was a classmate all the way back to elementary school. His family lived at the edge of Fellers Pond (where small carp, goldfish and catfish were preyed upon by kids dirty from digging worms), he had a reel-to-reel tape recorder in the 1950’s and I thought he was the luckiest kid in the world! He was also a really nice kid – his dad was on the school board so he really had no choice. Sorry to lose a boyhood friend but the memories live on.