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Funeral services for Richard Quentin Hart, Sr., were held at 2:00 p.m., on Monday, December 31st , 2007, at the new Life Christian Church in Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home, with the Rev. Ezell Nelson officiating.
Richard was born on November 2nd, 1930 , and died on December 28th, 2007, at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 77 years of age.
Born in Chickasha, the third child of Joseph Luther Hart, Jr., and Eva Jane Whitehurst Hart, Richard graduated from Chickasha High School in 1948. He then attended Oklahoma A&M, now OSU. After joining the National Guard 45th Infantry brigade he served active duty in the Korean Conflict.
Upon returning from Korea, Richard went to work for Dowell Chemical Co. as a chemical engineer in Augusta, Georgia. He met the love of his life, Jean Carolyn Ferguson in nearby Beach Island, South Carolina. They married on June 9th, 1954.
After the wedding, Richard and Jean moved to Texas with Dowell. They returned to Oklahoma in the fall of 1954, and Richard joined his father, J. L. Hart, Jr., at the Hart Cotton Machine Co. In 1963 they started Hart Dairy. Richard also worked for Jamco Machine shop and Molica Machine Works. Richard worked as City Water Superintendent from 1976-1978. Then he and Jean started Chickasha Design and Machine, Hart Feeds, Hart Transportation and Hart Farms. Richard was a member of the Epworth United Methodist Church and the Pairs and Spares Sunday School Class.
Richard Quentin Hart, Sr., is preceded in death by: his parents; his sister, Eva Jo Gentry Etheridge; two sisters-in-law, Geri Hart and Cordelia Hart. Richard is survived by: his wife of 53 years, Jean Carolyn; three brothers and spouses, Joseph Luther Hart, III, Robert Theodore Hart and Helen, and John Darrell Hart and Evanelle; three children and their spouses, Lisa and Rick Hart of Chickasha, Dr. Cindy and Larry Kidd of Jackson, Ohio, and Judy and Don Nelson of Chickasha; six grandchildren: Daniel Hart of Chickasha and Amelia Hart of San Francisco, California, Mitchell McVey of Tulsa, Carly and Alex Kidd of Jackson, Ohio; Hugh Hart Nelson of Chickasha; and by one great-grand child, Malea McVey of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Pallbearers were Mariano Ruiz, Jeff Schenk, Allen Schenk, James Schlecht, Jon Brown, Tim Elliott, Arnold Johnson and David Turner. Music was provided by Kristy Dehart Jarnagin, accompanied by Ashley Posey.
Memorials may be sent to the new life Christian Church, the Epworth United Methodist youth fund and St. Jude's children's hospital.
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