Ron fought in the Korean War for several years driving an amphibious landing craft. After his discharge and marrying his wife, Shirley, they settled near his family in Spokane. They had 63 years together raising a family, playing cards, and enjoying their cabin at Loon Lake and grandkids.
Ron worked many years for Powers Candy and finished his working life as a typewriter repairman with Kershaw’s Office Equipment.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Shirley; a son, Brian; and brothers, Bob and Vic Rickard. Ron is survived by his two children: Bill (Maureen) Rickard and Melody (Ed) Tucker; four grandchildren: Rana Robb (Chris), Rachel Key (Bryan), Kelsey Rickard, and Travis Tucker, and four great grandchildren: Ella, Mollie, Vivien, and Finn; his brother, Tom Rickard of Newport, WA, and long-time neighbor and friend, Alice McDowell, and numerous nephews and nieces.
Ron fought in the Korean War for several years driving an amphibious landing craft. After his discharge and marrying his wife, Shirley, they settled near his family in Spokane. They had 63 years together raising a family, playing cards, and enjoying their cabin at Loon Lake and grandkids.
Ron worked many years for Powers Candy and finished his working life as a typewriter repairman with Kershaw’s Office Equipment.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Shirley; a son, Brian; and brothers, Bob and Vic Rickard. Ron is survived by his two children: Bill (Maureen) Rickard and Melody (Ed) Tucker; four grandchildren: Rana Robb (Chris), Rachel Key (Bryan), Kelsey Rickard, and Travis Tucker, and four great grandchildren: Ella, Mollie, Vivien, and Finn; his brother, Tom Rickard of Newport, WA, and long-time neighbor and friend, Alice McDowell, and numerous nephews and nieces.
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