Richard Lindabury Berry ’46

Because he was raising his family in their home on Bumpalong Road in Darien, Conn., Dick managed to obtain vanity license plates Bumpa 1, Bumpa 2, and Bumpa 3 for three family cars. He took his delightful sense of humor to management positions at American Brake Shoe Co., American Cyanamid, and  Lillard, Berry, Bishop & Parker management consultants.

After wartime Naval service as a communications and signals officer, Dick moved to Seven Gates Farm on Martha’s Vineyard to restore his grandparents’ home (family-owned since the Civil War) in West Tisbury. Later, in Darien, he served on the town’s Beautification Commission, enjoyed wrestling his 1960s tractor through underbrush despite a nearly fatal encounter with a yellow-jacket hive, and was a skillful refurbisher of furniture.

When Dick died Aug. 8, 2016, at 91, he was survived by his wife, Lois Boots Berry; his children, Richard Kingsley Berry ’76, Virginia Berry Ouellet, and Lois Berry Meyer; and seven grandchildren. To all, ’46 sends warm and heartfelt condolences.