Richard Patrick Lovett

Richard Patrick Lovett 85, died peacefully on June 1, 2007 in San Francisco. Born in Boston, he was the fifth of six siblings who were first generation Americans born of Irish parents. He served in the Merchant Marines during World War II. He then worked for Western Electric & Pacific Telephone and Telegraph as an engineer and was a past president of the Telephone Company Pioneers of America. In retirement he volunteered with AARP as a tax preparer and district leader and with the SF Democratic Party managing the voter registration process. Conservation of natural resources, politics, jazz and visual arts were his passions. He was predeceased by his first wife Margaret Becker and is survived by his sister Mary M. Lovett; his wife of 45 years Marylouise Allen Lovett; and his children Peter, Mary Karen, Michaela and Rachel and three grandchildren. There will be a Memorial Gathering Saturday, July 28, 2:00pm-5:00pm at his home-724 Castro Street, SF. If you can, please rsvp 415-282-8370. In lieu of flowers, please make contributions in his memory to the Acquired Brain Injury Program at CCSF, where he took art classes, which he loved - DSP&S-CCSF c/o Paul Johnson, Department Chair, 50 Phelan Avenue, Room #R323, SF, CA 94112, or to The Sierra Club, Attn: Memorials, 85 Second Street, 2nd Flr, SF, CA 94105.