Richard was born September 24, 1931 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Addison and Mary Miller and moved with his family to Leavenworth, Kansas when he was a young child. He attended school in Leavenworth and graduated from Leavenworth High School.
After graduating from the University of Nebraska Richard joined the U.S.Army as an interpreter/translator for army intelligence and traveled throughout Europe. It was then that he fell in love with France. After his honorable discharge from the Army he went to work for UNESCO in Paris. In the early 1960s he moved to New York and continued his work as an interpreter/translator for the Security Council at the United Nations. Upon his retirement from the United Nations, Richard returned to Paris where he where he lived among his numerous friends and his even more numerous books and recordings and worked as a freelance translator for several publishing companies. He was an elegant and highly regarded translator of books by writers such as Roland Barthes, and of many plays and works on the arts.
He was preceded in death by his parents and survived by two sisters, Sue Malloy (LHS Class of 1966) of Lawrence, Kansas and Mary Smith (LHS Class of 1952) of Forsyth, Missouri, as well as three nieces and two nephews.
A private service will be held in Paris to note his passing.
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