You Most Certainly did live.

He was born on December 18, 1942, and died in a Boston Hospital, surrounded by his Family on October 25, 2017.

"I was born without tubes attached to me, and I am going out with any of them on either." You see, he suffered from sugar diabetes, but he would eat whatever damn-well pleased him. One week before he was stricken with near total systems' collapse, he had invited former St. Mary's Alumnae and other friends to dine with him at the famous "Daniel Webster Inn", in Falmouth, MA...where he had his summer residence. "What happened? How can he be hospitalized, gravely ill, when we had a great time with him just last week.He looked great!

He was very involved with his town's government...having served in 20 various elected and non-elected offices. He was proud to be dedicated to his Family, to his local town, to the Catholic Church, and to the US Army. He is the only person that I know that was buried above ground, in a crypt, with an engraved photo of himself in the front, and an epitaph on the back. It read: "After all the battles which he fought for, it was time that finally put him here; and after all his good services to Humanity, Life goes on as though he never existed."

Butch Rich! As long as we, who knew and loved you have breath...we miss you and pray that we shall reunite once again. And as one local journalist described you: "Butch, you were one of a kind. There'll never be another one like you...and we will be the poorer for it."