In Memory

Richard Martin Carleton



 
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05/05/15 10:08 AM #1    

Billy Mac Brown

Richard's family moved to Odessa in time for him to start OHS as a sophomore.  I had a few classes with him, but it was when I started to work at the Scott Theatre in the spring of 1965 just before graduation that I got to know Richard.  We were the only ushers from OHS, the others were all from Permian.  At the time, Richard had this fixation with the Beatles and the English bands and groups.  Richard started to let his hair grow and he became quite a pipe and pipe tobacco authority.  Besides collecting L.P.'s, Richard collected pipes and spent what I considered to be ridiculous amounts of money on them, but Richard wasn't detered.  When we started OC, his parents moved and Richard had an efficiency apartment at the Stadium Apartments near Barrett Stadium.  Suddenly at mid term of our sophomore year, Richard quit his job at the Scott and was gone.  I never knew what happened.  I did not see Richard again until our 40th Reunion when he showed up.  He was working at a Bank in Dallas and had gotten his degree aT UNT.  Richard was divorced and had a son and a daughter and told me he had lived for a long time in Santa Fe and had moved to Dallas three or four years before.    I had attended college with his sister Liz at Howard Payne, but I never ask about Richard back in the early 70's. 

Suddenly two years after our 40th reunion, I found out that Richard had passed away on January 7, 2007.  He had been under treatment for cancer.  In 2009, his younger sister, Liz also passed away from cancer.  They are buried in the Proctor Cemetery in Comanche County, Texas. 


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