Richard Lyman Partridge

Dear Kay,

We came to visit you, on 14 Feb 2017, at the old church, where you used to live. We wanted to surprise you, because we brought Elder Yang Gi-Oook and his wife, Sister Kim Ok-Sun, with us. (Your phone number is no longer in the white pages, on the Internet, so I couldn't call ahead anyway.)

We were sorry to hear from Sister Susan Biesinger, yesterday (Feb 18), that Dick has passed away. We loved him dearly. You were both such a bright spot in our mission, and we...

Dear Kay,
We had such a fun time getting to know you and Elder Partridge "Dick" on our mission together at the Seoul Korea Temple. We were always so impressed by the rich memories you and Dick shared with us of all the experiences you had together. You generated an excitement for life in everyone you met! We were serving our second mission to the Seoul Korea Temple when Dick passed away, so we didn't know he had.

We actually drove up to see you on 14 Feb 2017, to the old...

Dick was another one of the many Crusader Drivers I had the fortune to fly with. He was my wingman in tactics flying the F-8 with bomb racks on one wing. At the time Dick had twice as much time in the plane and I learned a lot from him. Those days will always be special to me. Dick was big on making sure our pilots did not take second seat to any and all comers. We were in VF-124 at the time and took many pictures of F-4 tail cones for Happy Hour viewing. Dick has quite a few fellow...