Richard Hubbard died peacefully on Monday July 5, 2021, at Almond Blossom Assisted
Living in Chico, California. He was 97 years old. He is survived by his son Dean Hubbard,
Grandchildren Katie Hubbard-Knowles and husband Gary Knowles, two great grandchildren
Ashley Knowles, Tyler Knowles. He was preceded in death by his oldest son Mark Dewitt
Hubbard 1985. Cause of death was old age and dementia.
Richard was born on September 7, 1923 in Huntington Park California to Carson B.
Hubbard and Bessie L. Hollis-Hubbard and had a younger brother Chauncey. The family spent
their summers in Long Beach California at Alamitos Bay swimming, sailing, clamming and
fishing.
Richard as a young man gained an interest and lifelong passion for breeding, training
and racing Homing Pigeons with a winning race record all through Middle and High school and
his winning accomplishments served him well in WWII.
During WWII Richard enlisted in the Air Force and when his eyesight wasn't good
enough to be a pilot and he joined the Army training as a machine gunner. Two weeks before
shipping out to the South Pacific he was transferred to the Signal Corps to breed and train their
messenger pigeons due to his already established winning record.
After the war he attended University of Michigan at Flint and graduated as a Doctor of
Veterinary Medicine in June 1949. He took the summer off and journeyed north on the newly
opened Alaskan Highway. He joined a Steamboat crew in Dawson City and worked the
summer firing the boiler. They ran barges up and down the Yukon River from Whitehorse to
Dawson City.
Richard returned to LA and married high school sweat heart Doris W. Suppe in June of
1950, they had two sons Mark Dewitt and Dean Carson Hubbard. Richard became a partner in
a Small Animal Hospital that was branching into large animals. He was also the outside
consulting Veterinarian to Marine land of the Pacific which led to joining Stanford Research
Institute studying Bio Sonar in Seals and Sea Lions for adapting echo location to blind people
in 1965.
Richard became a glider pilot and competed in several soaring meets in Nevada during
the annual Spring Sierra Wave weather event.
He retired to a large cattle ranch in eastern Oregon in 1985 and ran it until 2006. He
traveled in and RV until 2008 and settled onto his Mountain Ranch outside Medford Oregon
which is completely off grid when he was 85.
In 2017 he moved to Chico and spent the last four years living with his Son and visiting
his grandchildren and great grandchildren children often. He moved into Memory care in
February 2021.
Richard was a private, rugged individualist that cherished his independence, family,
friends and he loved competition and adventure. His was a life well lived. He instructed that no
funeral or memorial service be held and instead we should focus on the living and
remembering the good times shared with him. He will be interned on July 12, 2021 at the
Northern California Veteran's Cemetery in Igo with Honor Guard and Rifle Salute by the Army.
Living in Chico, California. He was 97 years old. He is survived by his son Dean Hubbard,
Grandchildren Katie Hubbard-Knowles and husband Gary Knowles, two great grandchildren
Ashley Knowles, Tyler Knowles. He was preceded in death by his oldest son Mark Dewitt
Hubbard 1985. Cause of death was old age and dementia.
Richard was born on September 7, 1923 in Huntington Park California to Carson B.
Hubbard and Bessie L. Hollis-Hubbard and had a younger brother Chauncey. The family spent
their summers in Long Beach California at Alamitos Bay swimming, sailing, clamming and
fishing.
Richard as a young man gained an interest and lifelong passion for breeding, training
and racing Homing Pigeons with a winning race record all through Middle and High school and
his winning accomplishments served him well in WWII.
During WWII Richard enlisted in the Air Force and when his eyesight wasn't good
enough to be a pilot and he joined the Army training as a machine gunner. Two weeks before
shipping out to the South Pacific he was transferred to the Signal Corps to breed and train their
messenger pigeons due to his already established winning record.
After the war he attended University of Michigan at Flint and graduated as a Doctor of
Veterinary Medicine in June 1949. He took the summer off and journeyed north on the newly
opened Alaskan Highway. He joined a Steamboat crew in Dawson City and worked the
summer firing the boiler. They ran barges up and down the Yukon River from Whitehorse to
Dawson City.
Richard returned to LA and married high school sweat heart Doris W. Suppe in June of
1950, they had two sons Mark Dewitt and Dean Carson Hubbard. Richard became a partner in
a Small Animal Hospital that was branching into large animals. He was also the outside
consulting Veterinarian to Marine land of the Pacific which led to joining Stanford Research
Institute studying Bio Sonar in Seals and Sea Lions for adapting echo location to blind people
in 1965.
Richard became a glider pilot and competed in several soaring meets in Nevada during
the annual Spring Sierra Wave weather event.
He retired to a large cattle ranch in eastern Oregon in 1985 and ran it until 2006. He
traveled in and RV until 2008 and settled onto his Mountain Ranch outside Medford Oregon
which is completely off grid when he was 85.
In 2017 he moved to Chico and spent the last four years living with his Son and visiting
his grandchildren and great grandchildren children often. He moved into Memory care in
February 2021.
Richard was a private, rugged individualist that cherished his independence, family,
friends and he loved competition and adventure. His was a life well lived. He instructed that no
funeral or memorial service be held and instead we should focus on the living and
remembering the good times shared with him. He will be interned on July 12, 2021 at the
Northern California Veteran's Cemetery in Igo with Honor Guard and Rifle Salute by the Army.
Richard Hubbard died peacefully on Monday July 5, 2021, at Almond Blossom Assisted
Living in Chico, California. He was 97 years old. He is survived by his son Dean Hubbard,
Grandchildren Katie Hubbard-Knowles and husband Gary Knowles, two great grandchildren
Ashley Knowles, Tyler Knowles. He was preceded in death by his oldest son Mark Dewitt
Hubbard 1985. Cause of death was old age and dementia.
Richard was born on September 7, 1923 in Huntington Park California to Carson B.
Hubbard and Bessie L. Hollis-Hubbard and had a younger brother Chauncey. The family spent
their summers in Long Beach California at Alamitos Bay swimming, sailing, clamming and
fishing.
Richard as a young man gained an interest and lifelong passion for breeding, training
and racing Homing Pigeons with a winning race record all through Middle and High school and
his winning accomplishments served him well in WWII.
During WWII Richard enlisted in the Air Force and when his eyesight wasn't good
enough to be a pilot and he joined the Army training as a machine gunner. Two weeks before
shipping out to the South Pacific he was transferred to the Signal Corps to breed and train their
messenger pigeons due to his already established winning record.
After the war he attended University of Michigan at Flint and graduated as a Doctor of
Veterinary Medicine in June 1949. He took the summer off and journeyed north on the newly
opened Alaskan Highway. He joined a Steamboat crew in Dawson City and worked the
summer firing the boiler. They ran barges up and down the Yukon River from Whitehorse to
Dawson City.
Richard returned to LA and married high school sweat heart Doris W. Suppe in June of
1950, they had two sons Mark Dewitt and Dean Carson Hubbard. Richard became a partner in
a Small Animal Hospital that was branching into large animals. He was also the outside
consulting Veterinarian to Marine land of the Pacific which led to joining Stanford Research
Institute studying Bio Sonar in Seals and Sea Lions for adapting echo location to blind people
in 1965.
Richard became a glider pilot and competed in several soaring meets in Nevada during
the annual Spring Sierra Wave weather event.
He retired to a large cattle ranch in eastern Oregon in 1985 and ran it until 2006. He
traveled in and RV until 2008 and settled onto his Mountain Ranch outside Medford Oregon
which is completely off grid when he was 85.
In 2017 he moved to Chico and spent the last four years living with his Son and visiting
his grandchildren and great grandchildren children often. He moved into Memory care in
February 2021.
Richard was a private, rugged individualist that cherished his independence, family,
friends and he loved competition and adventure. His was a life well lived. He instructed that no
funeral or memorial service be held and instead we should focus on the living and
remembering the good times shared with him. He will be interned on July 12, 2021 at the
Northern California Veteran's Cemetery in Igo with Honor Guard and Rifle Salute by the Army.
Living in Chico, California. He was 97 years old. He is survived by his son Dean Hubbard,
Grandchildren Katie Hubbard-Knowles and husband Gary Knowles, two great grandchildren
Ashley Knowles, Tyler Knowles. He was preceded in death by his oldest son Mark Dewitt
Hubbard 1985. Cause of death was old age and dementia.
Richard was born on September 7, 1923 in Huntington Park California to Carson B.
Hubbard and Bessie L. Hollis-Hubbard and had a younger brother Chauncey. The family spent
their summers in Long Beach California at Alamitos Bay swimming, sailing, clamming and
fishing.
Richard as a young man gained an interest and lifelong passion for breeding, training
and racing Homing Pigeons with a winning race record all through Middle and High school and
his winning accomplishments served him well in WWII.
During WWII Richard enlisted in the Air Force and when his eyesight wasn't good
enough to be a pilot and he joined the Army training as a machine gunner. Two weeks before
shipping out to the South Pacific he was transferred to the Signal Corps to breed and train their
messenger pigeons due to his already established winning record.
After the war he attended University of Michigan at Flint and graduated as a Doctor of
Veterinary Medicine in June 1949. He took the summer off and journeyed north on the newly
opened Alaskan Highway. He joined a Steamboat crew in Dawson City and worked the
summer firing the boiler. They ran barges up and down the Yukon River from Whitehorse to
Dawson City.
Richard returned to LA and married high school sweat heart Doris W. Suppe in June of
1950, they had two sons Mark Dewitt and Dean Carson Hubbard. Richard became a partner in
a Small Animal Hospital that was branching into large animals. He was also the outside
consulting Veterinarian to Marine land of the Pacific which led to joining Stanford Research
Institute studying Bio Sonar in Seals and Sea Lions for adapting echo location to blind people
in 1965.
Richard became a glider pilot and competed in several soaring meets in Nevada during
the annual Spring Sierra Wave weather event.
He retired to a large cattle ranch in eastern Oregon in 1985 and ran it until 2006. He
traveled in and RV until 2008 and settled onto his Mountain Ranch outside Medford Oregon
which is completely off grid when he was 85.
In 2017 he moved to Chico and spent the last four years living with his Son and visiting
his grandchildren and great grandchildren children often. He moved into Memory care in
February 2021.
Richard was a private, rugged individualist that cherished his independence, family,
friends and he loved competition and adventure. His was a life well lived. He instructed that no
funeral or memorial service be held and instead we should focus on the living and
remembering the good times shared with him. He will be interned on July 12, 2021 at the
Northern California Veteran's Cemetery in Igo with Honor Guard and Rifle Salute by the Army.
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