I met Dick about the time I moved to southern Vermont. Dick was the central hub of a morning 2 meter net on the 145.39 Mount Equinox VT repeater. The entire time I knew Dick, his health was not good, but he never let it show on the air.
In time, he got on the air less and less, until we never heard him at all for several months. He lived alone and had no family in the area, so we had no easy way to tell where or how he was. Eventually, we found he had passed on in July 2007. Dick was my sponsor into QCWA. The old "Conglommer Net" crowd will miss him.