Richard Neimeth

NEIMETH--Richard, died on January 7th in his home in New York after a long illness, surrounded by his loving family. Beloved husband of Peggy (Sprung), cherished father of Deborah (George Barrett), Pamela (Norbert Lazar), Amy Sachs, and Lisa (Peter Dickstein). Grandfather of Kate, Zachary and Emma Barrett; Kylie and Cass Neimeth-Lazar; Joshua and Benjamin Safdie and Maggie Sachs; Jackson and Tess Neimeth-Dickstein. A graduate of Cornell University, he also attended the MBA program in Pharmaceutical Business Administration at Brooklyn College of Pharmacy. He received an honorary Ph.D. from Long Island University in 1994. Mr. Neimeth was founder and CEO of NMC Labs, a generic pharmaceutical company in Queens, New York. He was President of National Magnesia Company founded by his late father, Edward, in Queens, New York and Vice President and partner of Major Pharmaceutical, a generic drug wholesale distributor in Chicago. He served as Chairman of the Council of Overseers of the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy, member of the Board of Trustees of Long Island University, member of the Community Board of Metropolitan Hospital in New York and member of the Board of Trustees of the Gunn Memorial Library in Washington, CT, where he had a home. He was a talented photographer and his photographs grace the walls of his many friends. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice, VNS and Mt. Sinai Hospital liver program, care of Dr. Douglas Dieterich. Funeral services will be on Sunday, January 11 at 11:45am at the Riverside Memorial Chapel, 76th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The family will be sitting shiva at the family's home in New York on Sunday evening from 6-8pm and Monday from 4-8pm.