Richard L. "Red" Nightingale, 83, die Thursday, April 10, 2014 at Pine Village in Moundridge, Kansas. He ws born October 13, 1930 at Halstead to Adam and Agnes Schmidt Nightingale.
Red grew up on a farm southwest or Halstead and graduated from Halstead High School in 1948. He was a United States Marine and served his country during the Korean Conflict earning a Purple Heart and a Silver Star for his courageous initative, intrepidity and leadership in the securing and holding of a strategic hill under heavy enemy fire.
He worked at Boeing in Wichita, but will best remembered as the service station owner and mechanic at Red's in Halstead.
He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church; Ruth Wilson American Legion Post 231 and served on the Lay Advisory Board of Halstead Hospital, all of Halstead.
On June 27, 1944 he married Polly A. Herman at Spearville. She survives of the home.
Survivors: sons; Dick (Teresea) Nightiingale, Blue Springs, Missouri; Phil (Mary) Nightinigale, Hutchinson; daughters; Pam (Greg) Maher, Bucyrus; Sherrie (Norm) Kelly, Salina; Jana (Tony) Barry, Topeka; 12 grandchildren and great grand-daughter, Kate Stock.
Red had chosen to donate his body to sciende at the University of Kansas.
Services were held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church on April 14 .
1930 - 2014 (83 years)