Richard C. Nordine

1944 - 2024

Richard C. Nordine

Nov 18, 1944 - Sep 12, 2024

Richard Charles (Dick) Nordine was born November 18, 1944 in Toledo, OH, and died September 12, 2024 in Pensacola, FL.

After graduating from Ewen, MI, High School in 1962 and working summers at the Nordine Lumber Company in Kenton, MI, he obtained a master's degree in probability and statistics from Michigan State University. He taught math at MSU from 1970 to 1973 and was Director of Statistical Applications at Nordhaus Associates, Inc. in Farmington, MI, from 1973 to 1975. Beginning in 1975, he completed his career after many years as a market research scientist at RJR in Winston Salem, NC, until his retirement.

And there is much evidence in Dick's personal papers of his further math interests. There are, for example, a 70-page analysis of statistics and probability factors for the card game of poker and a letter to a Michigan Legislator volunteering to help in making his constituent questionnaires effective in support of governing. He always had up-to-date golf handicaps for his friends in the large group of golfers that he organized at Pinebrook (later Maple Chase) Country Club in Winston Salem. He provided daily up-dated handicaps for any of the tees that a golfer might choose to play and helped everyone to know it was fair, however the betting worked out.

Most of Dick Nordine's family passed before him, his father, Clemens Nordine; his mother, Florence Wassberg Nordine; his sister, Ruth Chown; and his brothers, Joseph and John Nordine. He is survived by his brother, Paul Nordine; wife, Justine Nordine; and son, Nathan; many Nordine and Wassberg cousins; Chown family nieces and nephews, Amy, Kevin, and Karen Collier.

His funeral will be on Thursday, September 19, 2024, at Anderson Funeral Home in Escanaba, MI. The family will receive visitors at 2:30 p.m. with a short service at 3:15 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will then be at Gardens of Rest in Escanaba, with military services by the United States Army Honor Guard and taps played by Dick's brother-in-law, John Chown. The Anderson Funeral Homes of Escanaba and Gladstone are assisting the Nordine family with arrangements. Online condolences can be sent to the family at www.andersonfuneralhomes.net.