Herring, Richard Loren – 1944-2009

HERRING

Posted By: JCGS Volunteer
Date: 4/28/2014 at 11:28:43

Memorial services will be held at a later date.
"How worn and dusty must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of conformity. I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains." -Henry David Thoreau Richard Herring always said, "The world is my living room."
Richard was born September 6, 1944 in Jesup, Georgia. He was 64 when he died on January 21st at the VA Health Care Facility in Knoxville, Iowa. He served in the US Navy from 1965 through 1967, a portion of that service aboard the USS Guadalupe. He was a graduate of Roosevelt high school before earning his PhD on the highways and byways at the University of Life. One of the founding members of the International Wasters and Drifters Club, (est. Acapulco, 1969), Richard was a journalist, a poet, a musician, a magician, an advocate of liberty, an outspoken critic of authority, and the man who invented the Gray's Lake White Cap while tending bar at the Bilge in Christiansted, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
He is survived by his brothers Ed and Bill, a sister Janet, nephew Sean, nieces Laura and Jessica, and the 6.7 billion other close relatives with whom he shared his living room. Not a big fan of clichés, he would have cringed at this one: After God made Richard, He broke the mold.
After a memorial service with family and friends, his ashes will be scattered to the four winds. The family requests that memorial contributions in Richard's name be made to the charity of your choosing.
Source: Wallace Family Funeral Home website: January 2009