Richard "Rick" Whitson

Uncle Ricky ,miss you and our trip too sturgis

going to miss you rick. thanks to you i will always be known as grandma, works for me

Ricky could really brighten a room with his humor. If you ever heard him laugh...you could never forget it. I will miss him.

Susan Dempsey-Thum
Freudenstadt Germany

I met Rick 53 yrs. ago when I went out for peewee league baseball. I was picked by the Tigers his dad was an assistant manager of that team. later we played on some more baseball teams together. He lived near me and we became friends that grew up together. His parents had a beach cabin on the gulf coast and we went there often. Later in years, he bought a Harley Davidson Motor cycle and named it "ole Dollar". We flew radio controlled aircraft. JoAnn my wife would fix steaks and loaded baked...

I will miss my "Cuz" (our nickname for each other) who always saw the funny side of things and made me laugh. Cuz instilled a love for motorcycles in me from the first ride on his Honda 65. Bounty Hunter guns, Cool Hand Luke, paper route at 3 am, Mustang, Roadrunner, grand daddy's guns, Jimi Hendrix, Honda 160 Scrambler, Kawasaki crash in Arkansas, Peterbilt trucks, "your money's no good here", and much, much laughter. So long, Cuz.