Richard John Hallock

RICHARD JOHN HALLOCK

Richard John Hallock, of Red Bluff, California went to meet the Lord on July 30, 2011. He was 93. Richard was born in National City, California on June 6, 1918 to James W. and Jessie F. Hallock. He graduated from Sweetwater Union High School in National City, California in 1936, and from Oregon State College, in Corvallis, Oregon in 1942.

While attending Oregon State College, he met and married Jean Marie Baker, a pharmacy student at Oregon State and an eventual school teacher. In addition to his loving and devoted wife, Jean, Richard is survived by son's Dr. Robert J. Hallock and wife Linda of Spokane, Washington, and school computer specialist, Richard M. Hallock and wife Erlinda of Pollock Pines, California. His grandchildren include Sten Hallock and Elden Hallock, and his great grandchildren are Ethan, Sean, Cyruss, Caden, and Killian.

During World War II, he spent 3 years in the U.S. Army. In the The Pacific Theatre of Operations, he was on Entiwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands, and Leyte in The Philippine Islands. He was awarded The Asiatic Pacific Theatre Campaign Medal with one Bronze star, The Philipine Liberation Medal with one Bronze star, The American Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal.

Richard was a member of The American Fisheries Society, Phi Sigma National Biological Honorary Society, Pacific Fisheries Biologists, California Kamloops, Inc., and The Tehama Fly Fishers, he was also awarded "Sportsman Of The Year" by John Reginatto and the Shasta Cascade Wonderland Association. He served as a consultant to, and member of, The California Department Of Fish and Game's Upper Sacramento River Salmon And Steelhead Advisory Committee.

After returning from World War II army service, he worked as a Marine Biologist one year for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, followed by forty-two years for the California Department of Fish and Game. While with the California Department of Fish and Game, his research led to an understanding of the ocean distribution of Sacramento River Salmon, and the life history of the now endangered Sacramento River Winter Run Salmon, as well as the roll of hatcheries in maintaining salmon and steelhead populations. He authored numerous Papers, Special Reports, and Fish Bulletins, based on his research, which have helped lead the way to correct fishery management policies, and regulations.

At Mr. Hallock's request there will be no services.