Richard Morrell Quimby, Jr of Seaford, Delaware died at the age of 82 on Sunday, Apr 30 at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital.

Born in Philadelphia in 1923 and educated in public schools there, he enlisted in the army after high school graduation in 1942, joining the armed force of World War II.  As an Air Corps Cadet, he attended navigation school and was assigned to a B-24 bomber squadron with the Mighty Eighth Air Force. He flew 30 missions from Hardwick, England over German occupied territories from which only half of his crew returned. For his efforts he was awarded Air Medals and Distinguished Flying Cross.

In 1951-55 he was assigned to the Armament Lab, at Eglin AFB.  From 56-59, he was a metallurgist in the High Temperature Materials Branch, AFRML. From 61-65, he was a metallurgical analyst in the Foreign Technology Division. From 65-68, he was a Scientist Special Det #3 to the Foreign Technology Division.  From 68-69, he was Chief, Basic Science Group, Det #3, FTD. And from 1969-72, he was Chief, Manufacturing Technology Div, AFRML.

In 1956 he married Jean Rogers of Reading, Pa.  They were a devoted couple through 57 years of marriage, sharing a 30-yr Air Force career, raising two children, and traveling extensively through very active early retirement. He had a teenage son (Richard M Quimby III) who died in Frankfurt, Germany on 6 Apr 1968 and was buried at Gettysburg National Cemetery. In 1994, they moved to Methodist Manor House.  His wife died in 2004.