Richard M. Rinehart

RINEHART, RORICK, FRIEDRICHSEN, JOHNSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 5/13/2006 at 16:47:07

Earlham Library Obituary Collection
1997

Richard M. Rinehart, 63, of Earlham, died of pneumonia, August 19, 1997 at Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset. No services are planned at this time, and the family will have a private interment of the cremains at a later date.

He was born to Lisle C. and Margaret P. (Rorick) Rinehart on July 12, 1934 on the family farm in Guthrie County. He was a graduate of Coon Rapids High School and moved to Des Moines where he lived for 18 years. He was a dispatcher for the Brady Motor Freight Company and retired due to health reasons in 1979. He then moved to Earlham where he lived for another 18 years.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother.

Surviving relatives include one brother, Clifford Rinehart of Long Beach, Calif.; and two sisters, Naomi Friedrichsen and husband Roger of Schleswig, and Wanda Johnson and husband Duane of Bayard.

Memorial may be directed to the Disabled Veterans Association.