![]() ![]() Taking another year’s sabbatical, he helped from the milling of the lumber for the house from the forest to the finishing details of the indoor trim. Rick’s greatest building project was a new house on Puget Sound. The apple trees there provided fabulous apple cider pressing parties with swings in the barn and hidey holes in the hay bales. He and Paula bought an old farmhouse with a great barn, and his engineering skills emerged as he made it into a wonderful home over the years. Although working long hours, Rick always made time for his family, was a loving and involved father, and worked hard to participate in his children’s many activities.īuilding things brought Rick immense joy. During this time he and Paula began their own family, adding two children, Jocelyn and Jordan. Adored by his patients, he was constantly hailed while out and about. He was a compassionate, caring, and detailed doctor, who enjoyed the problem solving that medicine demanded. He loved the idea of taking care of entire families, and delivered babies for the first fifteen years of his practice. Rick practiced family medicine in Olympia for over thirty years. While in Singapore, he accepted a job in family practice with Group Health in Olympia. After Rick’s residency, they took a sabbatical year to travel around the world with packs on their backs, spending three months in India at the hill station of Mussoorie, where Rick practiced medicine, and Paula taught. They moved to Rochester, New York, where he was a resident in the family medicine program. He and Paula were married at Villa Montalvo, close to her teaching assignment in Los Altos. Graduating from Stanford, Rick attended medical school at the University of California in San Francisco. Separated at the end of Rick’s sophomore year of high school, they corresponded over the years and met again in London. Rick and Paula had their first date at the Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Dance in junior high school. An apt student, great baseball and tennis player, dancer, and lover of the details of science, he was also a fun and well-liked guy. Rick’s formative years were spent in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he met his future wife, Paula, in a kindergarten tap dancing class. He passed away November 12, 2022, from complications of a stem cell transplant for acute myeloid leukemia. Finch, cherished husband and beloved father. Artwork: Victor Ambrus.It is with great sadness that our family announces the death of Richard M. It is easy to imagine then, the last and most insulting blow being delivered by a victorious Lancastrian soldier to the king’s body as it was paraded back to Leicester. ![]() Polydore Vergil tells us that after the battle, Richard III’s body ‘naked of clothing’ was ‘laid upon a horse back with the arms and legs hanging down on both sides.’ This would corroborate accounts that his body was treated less than reverently after the battle. One wound, a stab through the buttocks, may be a symbolic ‘insult injury’ delivered to the king’s body after death. Some of the wounds would have been difficult or impossible to inflict if Richard III was still wearing his armour and were therefore probably delivered after he was dead. This may be evidence that he was wearing armour, the metal plate bearing the brunt of the blows. In particular, there are no defensive wounds on his forearms or hands. Interestingly, there are few wounds to the rest of his body. ![]() One massive, fatal blow to the base of the skull could have been caused by a weapon such as a halberd. He is dressed in metal-plate armour of a type common in the late 15th century. None of the skull injuries could have been inflicted on someone wearing a helmet of the type favoured in the late 15th century so it would appear that Richard III lost his helmet, or had it forcibly removed during the battle.Ī modern re-enactor portraying Richard III. This trauma tells us that Richard III sustained multiple blows to the head from a number of different bladed weapons, suggesting he was ferociously attacked from all sides, probably by more than one person. Some of these accounts are supported by the evidence on Richard III’s skeleton, allowing us to explore possible scenarios for his dying moments. Contemporary accounts generally agree that a blow, or blows to the head killed Richard III, some crediting Welsh foot soldiers armed with halberds as the killers. During the ensuing fighting Richard III was surrounded by Tudor’s supporters who cut him down. On 22 August, 1485, at the Battle of Bosworth, Richard III led a mounted cavalry charge against Henry Tudor in an attempt to kill him and end the conflict. ![]()
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