Richard Taylor Symes

1921 - 2013  (92 years)

• Name	Richard Taylor Symes
  Birth	2 Jan 1921	Alexandria, Madison, IN
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Sep 2013	Lafayette. Lafayette, LA
  Person ID	I14002	Family Tree | Descendants of Francis & Elizabeth (Peck) Perkins
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2017

  
  

  Father	Earl Louis Symes,   b. 1 Jan 1892, Marinette, Marinette, WI d. 1975, New Orleans, Orleans, LA (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Mary Esther Taylor,   b. 16 Feb 1895, Rochester, Fulton, IN
  Marriage	15 Jun 1919	Madison Co, IN
  Family ID	F5224	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Evelyn Kelly Hamby,   b. 14 Jan 1926   d. 9 Dec 2011 (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	28 Nov 1944
  Family ID	F5226	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2017

  
  

• Notes

  LAFAYETTE - Richard "Dick" Taylor Symes, 92, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 at home surrounded by family. Dick was born in Indiana and spent his childhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, Miami, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended Georgia Tech, studying industrial design. Dick is a veteran of WWII, serving in Patton's army as a Second Lieutenant. His bravery during the war earned him a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Dick married Evelyn Hamby on November 28th, 1944, and after the war they lived primarily in Atlanta, GA, Jeanerette, LA, Ponce, PR, and Lafayette, LA.Dick spent his career as an engineer in the cotton and sugar industries, designing new machinery and methods of agriculture processing. His passion for industrial design carried into his hobbies as well. He designed and built furniture and a house in the Bauhaus and Prairie style earlier in his career, and enjoyed creating model trains. Dick was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was predeceased by his wife, and survived by two sons, one daughter-in-law, two grandchildren.