Richard Hartshorne Kimber ’43

Richard Hartshorne Kimber ’43 died August 4, 2014, at the Mercy Suburban Hospital in East Norriton, Pennsylvania. Dick was raised in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Choate, where he was a member of the glee club and crew. At Dartmouth he continued with the Glee Club and crew and was also a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Dick left college in January 1941. He worked at the Bendix instrument division in Philadelphia until he enlisted in the Army Air Cadets in 1943. After training he was sent to the Western Command, where he flew the PR-61, “Black Widow,” on reconnaissance plane checkouts. After the war Dick worked for the Stokes Machine Co. in New York City selling pharmaceutical and freeze-drying equipment. He met his future wife, Patricia Tension, on Madison Avenue and they were married in 1949. They soon moved to Philadelphia, where he worked for the Automatic Timing and Controls Co. selling electrical instruments. After several years in sales he moved to administration and finally to personnel. He retired in 1992. He enjoyed tennis, skiing and sailing and helping the mentally handicapped. Dick was active with the Germantown Friends Meeting and the Plymouth Meeting Historical Society. Pat, from whom he was divorced, died in 2005. Dick is survived by sons Robert, Charles ’74 and David, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.