PIERCE,RICHARD A;PROFESSOR EMERITUS,QUEENS UNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA AT FAIRBANKS. DIED TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 14, UNEXPECTEDLY,OF ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA,FIVE DAYS AFTER ENTERING KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR BOWEL OBSTRUCTION. HE WAS 86.CONSISTENT WITH DESIRE,HIS BODY,BEQUEATHED TO QUEENS UNIVERSITY ANATOMY DEPT. CHARACTERISTICALLY STOIC AND UNDERSTATED THROUGHOUT,HIS DEFERENTIAL MANNER WAS REMARKED EVEN BY STAFF LAST SEEING HIM CONSCIOUS. BY HIS SIDE IN THE FINAL MOMENTS, WAS HIS ONLY SURVIVING DAUGHTER CATHERINE,OF OAKLAND ,CA.,ALREADY VISITING.PREDECEASED BY VERA,HIS BELOVED WIFE OF 49 YEARS ,EARLY THIS SUMMER .KINGSTON RESIDENT SINCE 1959 WHEN JOINING QUEENS HISTORY DEPT. WIDELY RECOGNIZED FOR HIS EXTENSIVE RESEARCH,WRITING,TRANSLATING,AND EDITING IN THE RUSSIAN HISTORY FIELD AND FOR HIS LIMESTONE PRESS,"ALASKAN HISTORY SERIES'' OF 50 PLUS TITLES .HIS DAUGHTER BEGS INDULGENCE OF HIS MANY FRIENDS, COLLEGUES AND ASSOCIATES IN THIS TIME OF MANY DECISIONS SO SHE CAN DO JUSTICE AT A TIME TO BE ANNOUCED TO THEIR DESIRE TO OBSERVE HIS PASSING .

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