Richard "Dick" Kent

1940 - 2025

Anacortes, WA - A child of the sea, Dick Kent was raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He grew up exploring the coastal waterways, fishing, sailing, clamming, and finding his life-long love and passion for that small white mollusk, the Oyster. That child of the sea became a man of the sea, working for its care and conservation. As Glenda, his life-partner notes, his stomach rose and fell with the tides.

Dick was a man of many talents, full of ideas with an inventive mind, constantly thinking of new ways to fix and make things, many of them centered around his passion for energy efficiency, solar energy and treading lightly on our environment. Among his many endeavors, he bought and operated an airport, built small, efficient homes, helped start and run a solar business, and invented a way to look at nuclear reactions by bending light. He always was aware of the positions and phases of the sun and moon. He never lost his curiosity and enthusiasm.

A life-long and early evangelist of solar, Dick would say solar is free, democratic, and shines on rich and poor.

Dick Kent touched so many lives. He was there if you needed help with a project, a fix, or help working through problems or addiction. Not so good at idle chit chat, he would dig into life issues, what was going on good or bad, and lend a hand.

A long-time resident of Bay View, Anacortes, and the PNW, Dick is survived by his partner in love and adventure, Glenda Alm, his sister Betty Lorsung, and a loving, extended family and many dear friends.