Richard David Lear

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11 Mar 2008 REMEMBERED by a friend, Neal Bishop Cochranville, Pa E-mail address is not available.

16 June 2008 The photo and following article is taken from The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 23, 1969. An 18-year-old suburban Chester Marine was wounded fatally eight months after his enlistment, the Defense Department reported Wednesday. Pfc. Richard D. Lear, of 18 Chestnut parkway, Nether Providence, near Chester, father of an infant son, died in a hospital in Vietnam of wounds suffered while on patrol. Pfc. Lear left Nether Providence High School last March to enlist in the Marine Corps and was assigned to the First Infantry [sic] Division in Vietnam on Sept. 1. He is survived by his wife, Helen; his son, Richard Jr.; parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lear of 601 Ryanard rd., Nether Providence; a brother, John Jr.; four sisters, Sandy, Gail, Kathleen and Jacqueline; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Flanagan; and paternal grandfather, Edmund Lear. SEMPER FIDELIS, MARINE! From a native Philadelphian and Marine, Jim McIlhenney christianamacks@comcast.net

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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Memorial first published on 11 Mar 2008
Last updated 08/10/2009