Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....FRITSCHE , DR. RICHARD T. December 21, 2007
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News Star World - December 23, 2007
DR. RICHARD T. FRITSCHE 

Mulhearn Funeral Home Sterlington Road, Monroe, LA 

Funeral services for Dr. Richard T. Fritsche, 71, of Monroe, LA, will be held 
at 10:00 AM Monday, December 24, 2007, at Jesus the Good Shepherd Catholic 
Church with Rev. Mark Watson and Msgr. Edmund Moore officiating. Interment will 
follow in Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn 
Funeral Home, Sterlington Road, Monroe. Dr. Fritsche passed away Friday, 
December 21, 2007, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was a member of Jesus the 
Good Shepherd Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Leslie 
and Ann Fritsche; and brother, Les Fritsche. Dick was a gifted and accomplished 
mathematician, as a student and a teacher. He received bachelors and masters 
degrees from St. Louis University and was granted his doctor of philosophy 
degree from the University of Arizona. Dick spent his entire professional 
career in the classroom, starting at the University of Dallas. From there, he 
joined the faculty of Northeast Louisiana State College in 1968 and retired 
from the school in 1997. He was affectionately known to many as "The Big Guy" 
which could have easily been a measure of his heart. He was a man of boundless 
compassion and with a sense of fairness almost to a fault. He generally chose 
actions over words but he was not one for overt displays to make a point; 
rather he preferred an understated approach that might be initially overlooked 
but became all the more meaningful once it was discovered. The Big Guy's 
extremely dry, insightful and high minded sense of humor was legendary, and 
that is what we will miss most of all. While he leaves family and friends that 
will miss him dearly, we can count ourselves among the truly fortunate to have 
had our lives touched by him. Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Nancy Cox 
Fritsche; children, Tom Fritsche and wife Robin of Little Rock, AR, and Michael 
Fritsche and wife Leng of Dallas, TX; two grandchildren, Ann Elizabeth and 
Thomas Patrick Fritsche; and brother, John Charles Fritsche of Dallas, TX. 
Visitation will be Sunday from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM and a Vigil Wake service 
at 7:00 PM at Mulhearn Funeral Home, Sterlington Road, Monroe. In lieu of 
flowers, the family request memorials be made to St. Vincent DePaul or St. 
Fredrick High School.

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