This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richie, Ranallo, Ronzheimer, Shikany, Parsons, Marino, Buttke, Mulvaney Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3FC.2ACI/2393 Message Board Post: Friday, July 18, 2003 Samuel J. Richie, 81 Samuel Joseph Richie, 81, a lifelong educator of Miami, Fla., and formerly of Hudson, died Wednesday, July 9, in Florida. He was born in Hudson, July 4, 1922, the son of Eugene and Caroline (Ranallo) Richie. He attended St. Patrick’s Parochial School and Hudson High School, where he was active in football, basketball and baseball, and graduated in the class of 1939. He entered the U.S. Army in 1940 in Hudson with Co. “C“ and served three and a half years overseas in the South Pacific in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines during World War II. After returning to Hudson in 1945, he entered Hamline University in St. Paul. There he was a star football player with the Hamline Pipers for the next four years, and in 1949 he received his degree. On June 14, 1947, in Valley City, N.D., he was married to Merilyn J. Ronzheimer, a classmate at Hamline. For two years, 1949-51, after finishing Hamline, he taught physical education, bookkeeping and driver’s education at Hudson High School. He left Hudson in 1951 to take a teaching position in Miami, Fla. For the next 49 years he taught in five different schools, Horace Mann Junior High, Riviera Junior High, Leisure City Elementary, Coral Park Senior High and Southridge Senior High, all in the Dade County School System. During his long career, he touched many lives outside the educational arena. He was active in the Khourey League at Suniland Park where the ”Sam Richie Award” is still given annually to a player for sportsmanship. Additionally, he was also active in the Cursillo movement bringing hope and faith to prison inmates through the Kairos ministry. His involvement did not stop at the prison. He followed many of the inmates to a halfway house, Riverside House, where he was a director and strong supporter through the years. He is survived by his wife, Merilyn Richie of Miami; a daughter, Terri (Walter R., Jr.) Shikany of Miami; a son, Eugene (Terri Parsons) Richie of Jacksonville, Fla.; five grandchildren, Walter III and Michael Shikany and Tony, Jamie and Kelli Richie; three sisters, Mary Marino of Minneapolis, and Margaret Buttke and Elsie Mulvaney, both of Hudson; and a brother, Louis Richie of Hudson. A celebration of his life was at St. Richard’s Catholic Church in Miami at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 12. A memorial Mass is scheduled at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 26, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Hudson. O’Connell Family Funeral Home in Hudson is in charge of local arrangements. Memorials are suggested to Riverside House Ministry, 965 W. Flagler, Miami, FL 33130, or Kairos Prison Ministry, 130 University Park Dr., Suite 170, Winter Park, FL 32792. © 2003 Hudson Star-Observer - Reposted by permission http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/Main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=54&ArticleID=8121