THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, April 4, 1996 TAG: 9604040281
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Richard Terrie ``Rick'' Smith, 44, of Kempsville, passed away April 2, 1996, after a long illness.
Rick, a Class A member of the Professional Golf Association, was a golf teacher for most of his career. As a youth he was an amateur competitor who won the Virginia individual title while leading Kempsville High School to its first state championship in 1970. In 1969, Rick posted an amateur record 64 at the ``old'' Kempsville Meadows Golf Course and broke it the following year with a 63. He competed nationally for four years with the Georgia Southern University Golf Team. His last amateur event was the 1975 U.S. Amateur, where he was the low qualifier for Virginia. After a short stint of tour golf, Rick settled into the business side of the game for five years, then became a golf teacher in 1982. Developing a golf school and teaching motivated students were Rick's most satisfying accomplishments for the past 14 years. He was a member of Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church in Norfolk.
Rick is survived by his parents, Dorothy Lee Wingfield Smith and Oscar Rhodes ``Rhody'' Smith of Virginia Beach; two sisters, Sheryl Smith Stanworth and her husband, Raymond, Deborah Lynn Smith Collins and her husband, Tom, all of Virginia Beach; two brothers, Randall Wingfield Smith of Norfolk and Oscar Rhodes Smith Jr. of Las Vegas, Nevada; nieces and a nephew, Lauren Wingfield Collins, Jason Andrews Collins and Elizabeth Rhodes Stanworth, all of Virginia Beach; aunt, Gladys S. Hanbury of Norfolk; and numerous other family members and friends.
A funeral service will be held Friday at 7 p.m. by Dr. John Monroe in Smith and Williams Funeral Home, Kempsville Chapel, Virginia Beach. The family will receive friends at the funeral home following the service Friday evening. Memorial donations may be made to the Newport News Golf Club at Deer Run Junior Golf Program, 13564 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Va. 23602, or to the Shriner's Crippled and Burn Children's Hospital, Khedive Temple, 645 Woodlake Drive, Chesapeake, Va. 23320. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
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