Notes:
Data source is Waynette Caldwell, e-mail alwaynet@winco.net (from a booklet by Martin L. Mumaw, Jr.)
Data source is Verta Mumaw Stott, 325 Jickory Dr., Genoa, IL 60135, or e-mail June Stott Kubasiak at junek@niu.edu
Richard Higgins
Urbandale
Richard "Dick" Higgins, 92, passed away in his sleep February 17, 2013 at Arbor Springs. A funeral service will be held Wednesday, February 20, at 11 a.m. at Windsor United Methodist Church, 6222 University Avenue in Des Moines. Visitation will be Tuesday, February 19 from 5 - 7 p.m. at Brooks Funeral Care, 7975 University Blvd, Clive.
Richard was born December 15, 1920 in Burlington, Iowa. After high school, Richard attended the University of Iowa where he graduated with a degree in business. After graduation, Richard joined the Army Air Corps. Because of his business degree, the Army Air Corps armed Richard with a typewriter. He worked preparing maps for bombing runs on Japan, and was stationed on Tinian. He mapped the Enola Gay to Japan for the first atomic bomb attack.
After the war, Richard returned to Iowa and initially worked at Schaffer Pen in Fort Madison, Iowa. Richard married his wife, Lois June Mumaw Higgins on June 30, 1948, and they had five children, Rick, Doug, Pat, Beth and Barb.
[Published in Des Moines Register from February 19 to February 21, 2013]