Richard "Dick" Thurman Gregg was born July 21, 1924 in Little Rock, Arkansas to Robert William & Sofronia Grace Hunt Gregg. April 8, 1945. Richard married Altha Glynn Burchfield in Sebastian Co., Ar. In high school Dick excelled in sports and was the Student Body President. Richard registered for the military draft June 29, 1942 at the court house in Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Arkansas. On February 19, 1943 he enlisted with the US Army Air Corps at Houston, Texas. He states he has completed 4 years of high school and enlisted out of the Reserves. By the time he seperated from the setvice he had the rank of 2Lt and on October 31, 1944 was awarded the Air Medal, on Nov 25, 1944 he was awarded an Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and on Dec 21, 1944 again was awarded the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster. There is more information about his service in his obituary below. Richard Thurman Gregg passed away June 26, 2004 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana and is buried in Resthaven Gardens of Memory and Mausoleum, Baton Rouge,La. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Son of Robert William and Sofronia Grace Hunt Gregg. He grew up in Fort Smith, AR, graduated from Fort Smith High School in 1942, and attended Texas A&M University until enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corps on Dec. 9, 1942 in Houston. He completed 35 missions as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater and was a recipient of the Air Medal, World War II American Campaign Medal outside the United States, the European-African Medal and the Eastern Campaign Medal with three stars for meritorious action in aerial flight. He continued his education, earning a bachelor's degree in forestry from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Afterward, he served as a park ranger at Yellowstone and Shenandoah national parks. After completion of a master's degree coursework at the University of Missouri at Columbia, he earned a PhD in zoology from LSU, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternity. After working for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries water pollution division, he accepted a position in 1966 with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., as a senior biologist in the effluent guidelines division. In 1974, he returned to Baton Rouge as an EPA consultant to the state Department of Environmental Quality. In retirement, he was an environmental consultant in the private sector. He was preceded in death by his parents. Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Glynn Burchfield Gregg.