This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Medes, Briggs Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3FC.2ACI/3704 Message Board Post: Richard Allen “Dick” Medes, 68 Monday, August 16, 2004 Richard Allen “Dick” Medes, 68, of Baldwin and formerly of Hammond, died suddenly Saturday, August 14, 2004 at his residence. Funeral Celebration Of Life will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, August 19 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hammond with Pastor Michael Briggs to officiate. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at church on Thursday. Burial with full military honors provided by the Baldwin American Legion Post 240 will be in the Hammond Cemetery. Memorials preferred in lieu of flowers. Funeral services have been entrusted to the O’Connell Family Funeral Home of Baldwin. © 2004 Hudson Star-Observer - Reposted by permission http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=11456&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=144&S=1