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Beloved husband of Katherine Franklin.
Loving father of Danielle (Lee) and Mark.
Loving stepfather to Billy, Danny, Rick (Stephanie) and Marie Rumsey (Carey).
Adoring grandfather to Ariel and Benjamin Kaplan.
Caring pops to Bailey, Rex, Dylan, Whitney, Danielle Rumsey and Rylee, Kayla and Trevor Rumsey and Giana and Alden Dunn.
Born in Chicago, IL to Eleanore and Morton Franklin.
Richard excelled in sales and lived across the United States from Brentwood to Laguna Beach to Reston to Sarasota and Palm Springs. He traveled, great sense of style, art and going to the gym, and movies.
Richard (Dick) had a wonderful sense of humor, and was a life-long democrat. He had an incredible sweet tooth, loved good steaks, deep dish pizza and could never pass up a dirty martini.
His memory will be a blessing to all who knew him.
A graveside service will be held Monday, April 17th, 2023 at 11:30am with Rabbi Sally Olins officiating.
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Janis Charnay
April 18, 2023
I met Richard while working at a Real Estate Firm that he joined. He was always polite, and kind, and had a great sense of humor and a twinkle in his eye.
Although it was a short time, I am so glad that we met! (((Hugs to all his friends and family)))
Sue Derr
April 15, 2023
Oh Richard! How we met in my driveway on your bike! I´ll never forget the guy that approached me that day! We became fast friends until the end! When he was really I´ll he cried and then we cried and told me he wanted to fight this so he could be there for
Kathy! Kathy, he loved you so much! I reach out to his family and share our prayers! Sue and Margie
Dennis M. Pettit
April 6, 2023
On behalf of the boys at Intergraph Corporation, we send our thoughts and prayers to Dick´s wife and family. Dick was a good man and was very attentive to his customers and colleagues. He always had a kind word for his friends and for strangers. I´m quite sure that he joins the souls of the faithful on the journey forward into the cosmos.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God".
D.M. Pettit
Leesburg, VA
Anthony and Debra Garcy
April 4, 2023
Our deepest condolences to all of the family members of Richard "Dick" Franklin.
Sending all of you our love and prayers.
Anthony and Debra Garcy
"Death Is Nothing At All."
Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I, and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner."
All is well.
-Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)
Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral-London, UK
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