Tuscola County Advertiser, The (MI) - November 6, 2012
Deceased Name: RICHARD "DICK" JOHN ALDRICH formerly of Fairgrove
Died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 in Bigfork, MN, after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease. He was born and grew up on a farm near Fairgrove, and was an all-sports letterman and valedictorian of his high school class, after which he volunteered for military service. Dick served as a Second Lieutenant Navigator in the Army Air Force on 53 missions in the WWII China-Burma-India Theater. After the war, he attended Michigan State University on the GI Bill where he received a BS degree in 1948, and then a Ph.D. at Ohio State University (1950) for pioneering field research on the revolutionary hormone-mimetic herbicide known as 2,4-D. Dr. Aldrich continued his research career with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service at Rutgers University (1950-57), then took administrative positions at Michigan State University (1957-64) and the University of Missouri (1964-76) before moving to Washington D.C. in 1976 as Administrator of the USDA Cooperative State Research Service. In 1978, he returned to Columbia, MO, where he finished his professional career with dual appointments as Supervisory Research Agronomist with the USDA-ARS and Professor of Agronomy at the University of Missouri (1978-1987). He was Editor of the journal Weed Science from 1990-1993. Dr. Aldrich authored a college textbook entitled "Principles in Weed Management" (1st edition, 1984), and taught a course on "Weed-Crop Ecology" (a first, and ongoing course at MU). According to one of the many he mentored, "The diversification of modern weed science itself can at least be partially attributed to Dick's foresight and efforts." Richard Aldrich married his high school sweetheart, June Ellison, in 1943. He was a loving father of three children, seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Dick and June spent winters at their home in Green Valley, AZ, and summers at their home near Bigfork, MN. Throughout his professional and retired life, Dick's passionate hobby was golf; he was proud of his six holes-in-one, being a charter member and twice club champion of the Country Club of Missouri, and the initial club champion and course record holder for the "Edge of the Wilderness" course in Bigfork. There will be a memorial service on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. at Fairgrove Presbyterian Church, with inurnment following in Brookside Cemetery.
Tuscola County Advertiser, The (MI)
Date: November 6, 201
Deceased Name: RICHARD "DICK" JOHN ALDRICH formerly of Fairgrove
Died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 in Bigfork, MN, after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease. He was born and grew up on a farm near Fairgrove, and was an all-sports letterman and valedictorian of his high school class, after which he volunteered for military service. Dick served as a Second Lieutenant Navigator in the Army Air Force on 53 missions in the WWII China-Burma-India Theater. After the war, he attended Michigan State University on the GI Bill where he received a BS degree in 1948, and then a Ph.D. at Ohio State University (1950) for pioneering field research on the revolutionary hormone-mimetic herbicide known as 2,4-D. Dr. Aldrich continued his research career with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service at Rutgers University (1950-57), then took administrative positions at Michigan State University (1957-64) and the University of Missouri (1964-76) before moving to Washington D.C. in 1976 as Administrator of the USDA Cooperative State Research Service. In 1978, he returned to Columbia, MO, where he finished his professional career with dual appointments as Supervisory Research Agronomist with the USDA-ARS and Professor of Agronomy at the University of Missouri (1978-1987). He was Editor of the journal Weed Science from 1990-1993. Dr. Aldrich authored a college textbook entitled "Principles in Weed Management" (1st edition, 1984), and taught a course on "Weed-Crop Ecology" (a first, and ongoing course at MU). According to one of the many he mentored, "The diversification of modern weed science itself can at least be partially attributed to Dick's foresight and efforts." Richard Aldrich married his high school sweetheart, June Ellison, in 1943. He was a loving father of three children, seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Dick and June spent winters at their home in Green Valley, AZ, and summers at their home near Bigfork, MN. Throughout his professional and retired life, Dick's passionate hobby was golf; he was proud of his six holes-in-one, being a charter member and twice club champion of the Country Club of Missouri, and the initial club champion and course record holder for the "Edge of the Wilderness" course in Bigfork. There will be a memorial service on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. at Fairgrove Presbyterian Church, with inurnment following in Brookside Cemetery.
Tuscola County Advertiser, The (MI)
Date: November 6, 201
Tuscola County Advertiser, The (MI) - November 6, 2012
Deceased Name: RICHARD "DICK" JOHN ALDRICH formerly of Fairgrove
Died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 in Bigfork, MN, after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease. He was born and grew up on a farm near Fairgrove, and was an all-sports letterman and valedictorian of his high school class, after which he volunteered for military service. Dick served as a Second Lieutenant Navigator in the Army Air Force on 53 missions in the WWII China-Burma-India Theater. After the war, he attended Michigan State University on the GI Bill where he received a BS degree in 1948, and then a Ph.D. at Ohio State University (1950) for pioneering field research on the revolutionary hormone-mimetic herbicide known as 2,4-D. Dr. Aldrich continued his research career with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service at Rutgers University (1950-57), then took administrative positions at Michigan State University (1957-64) and the University of Missouri (1964-76) before moving to Washington D.C. in 1976 as Administrator of the USDA Cooperative State Research Service. In 1978, he returned to Columbia, MO, where he finished his professional career with dual appointments as Supervisory Research Agronomist with the USDA-ARS and Professor of Agronomy at the University of Missouri (1978-1987). He was Editor of the journal Weed Science from 1990-1993. Dr. Aldrich authored a college textbook entitled "Principles in Weed Management" (1st edition, 1984), and taught a course on "Weed-Crop Ecology" (a first, and ongoing course at MU). According to one of the many he mentored, "The diversification of modern weed science itself can at least be partially attributed to Dick's foresight and efforts." Richard Aldrich married his high school sweetheart, June Ellison, in 1943. He was a loving father of three children, seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Dick and June spent winters at their home in Green Valley, AZ, and summers at their home near Bigfork, MN. Throughout his professional and retired life, Dick's passionate hobby was golf; he was proud of his six holes-in-one, being a charter member and twice club champion of the Country Club of Missouri, and the initial club champion and course record holder for the "Edge of the Wilderness" course in Bigfork. There will be a memorial service on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. at Fairgrove Presbyterian Church, with inurnment following in Brookside Cemetery.
Tuscola County Advertiser, The (MI)
Date: November 6, 201
Deceased Name: RICHARD "DICK" JOHN ALDRICH formerly of Fairgrove
Died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 in Bigfork, MN, after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease. He was born and grew up on a farm near Fairgrove, and was an all-sports letterman and valedictorian of his high school class, after which he volunteered for military service. Dick served as a Second Lieutenant Navigator in the Army Air Force on 53 missions in the WWII China-Burma-India Theater. After the war, he attended Michigan State University on the GI Bill where he received a BS degree in 1948, and then a Ph.D. at Ohio State University (1950) for pioneering field research on the revolutionary hormone-mimetic herbicide known as 2,4-D. Dr. Aldrich continued his research career with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service at Rutgers University (1950-57), then took administrative positions at Michigan State University (1957-64) and the University of Missouri (1964-76) before moving to Washington D.C. in 1976 as Administrator of the USDA Cooperative State Research Service. In 1978, he returned to Columbia, MO, where he finished his professional career with dual appointments as Supervisory Research Agronomist with the USDA-ARS and Professor of Agronomy at the University of Missouri (1978-1987). He was Editor of the journal Weed Science from 1990-1993. Dr. Aldrich authored a college textbook entitled "Principles in Weed Management" (1st edition, 1984), and taught a course on "Weed-Crop Ecology" (a first, and ongoing course at MU). According to one of the many he mentored, "The diversification of modern weed science itself can at least be partially attributed to Dick's foresight and efforts." Richard Aldrich married his high school sweetheart, June Ellison, in 1943. He was a loving father of three children, seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Dick and June spent winters at their home in Green Valley, AZ, and summers at their home near Bigfork, MN. Throughout his professional and retired life, Dick's passionate hobby was golf; he was proud of his six holes-in-one, being a charter member and twice club champion of the Country Club of Missouri, and the initial club champion and course record holder for the "Edge of the Wilderness" course in Bigfork. There will be a memorial service on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. at Fairgrove Presbyterian Church, with inurnment following in Brookside Cemetery.
Tuscola County Advertiser, The (MI)
Date: November 6, 201
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