R. Updike

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Frank,

I knew Richard Updike.  He was a Motive Power Department employee who died 
in 1972 while he was still employed by the N&W.  When I knew Richard he 
worked in an office on the second floor of the MP office building.

I just talked with his nephew, David Updike in Salem, VA, who took Richard's 
job when Richard died, and David said that Richard's job involved mainly 
overseeing the supply of material for shop programs.  Richard was a rather 
large man and was single and I remember at the time of  his terminal illness 
thinking of how lonely he must have felt  with no immediate family.

Gordon Hamilton

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Subject: R. Updike



> June 1, 2008

>

> Does anyone remember R. Updike?  He may have worked in the mechanical 

> department at Roanoke in the 1970s.  The reason I ask is that I have a 

> wooden swivel chair with that name marked on the bottom.  It would be 

> interesting to know more about the person who sat in it.

>

> Thank you,

>

> Frank Scheer

> f_scheer at yahoo.com

>

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