Obituary of Richard Trowbridge

Services for Richard Delane Trowbridge, 79, New London, will be at 1:00 pm, Saturday, March 9, in the Cottle-pearson Funeral Home chapel, Overton. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery near New London. Mr. Trowbridge died Tuesday, March 5, 2013 in a Longview hospital. He was born January 5, 1934 in Graham County, Kansas to the late Thomas Leslie and Neva Marie Sanders Trowbridge. He is a veteran of the US Marines and moved to New London from Kilgore five years ago. He retired from Martin Gas in Kilgore where he had worked as a security guard and his hobby was racing pigeons.   Besides his parents, Mr. Trowbridge was also preceded in death by three brothers and one sister. Survivors include two brothers, Al Trowbridge, Conway, Arkansas and J. D. Trowbridge, New London; three sisters, Darlene Philpot, Kansas City, Kansas Marty Harwell, Mesquite, and Diane Duty, Mesquite; and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Ed Haley, Tim Haley, Joe Haley, Rodney Waters, Michael Trowbridge, and John Hines. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm Friday, March 8, 2013.