Richard Homer Hoch, 82, died Jan. 23 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
The cause was COVID-19, this devastating disease that he fought bravely, with great strength and determination.
Richard was born April 5, 1938, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Wharton Hoch and Betty Wilson.
He was raised in Marion, by his father and his loving stepmother Nadine (Noll) Hoch. He grew up helping his father with the family newspaper, Marion County Record. He had a nasty but proud scar on his left foot, caused when a can of molten lead spilled while he was setting type at 8 years old!
Richard graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in business, where he met and married the love of his life Nancy (DeLong) Hoch in 1961.