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Richard "Dick" Peterson

Manhattan Beach, California

1923 - 2023

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May 20, 1923 - Jan. 11, 2023 Manhattan Beach resident, and WWII veteran Richard Lionel Peterson passed away peacefully in his sleep at 99 1/2 years young. Dick lived his life with gratitude, humor and respect of family, community and the world around him. He was a humanitarian, mentor to many and...

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Our Uncle Dick in his earlier years. He was a wonderful human being. Kind, compassionate and so funny!

I met Cousin Dick in the mid-1980s. He was my father's first cousin and I happened to be going to LA for work and my dad asked that I "look him up." What a great guy! He embraced me as family the first moment he knew I was Joe's daughter. We had so much in common. We were both Unitarian Universalists which would have been enough, but our interest were so close it's like we'd known each other for 50 years and he lived long enough that we just about reached the 50 year mark. What a guy! RIP my...