{"id":2443706,"date":"2019-05-02T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/richard-adair-ritchey\/"},"modified":"2019-05-03T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:57:07","slug":"richard-adair-ritchey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/richard-adair-ritchey\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Adair Ritchey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Richard Adair Ritchey, born February 10, 1927, in Denver, passed away April 21, 2019 in The Woodlands, Texas. Richard\u2019s parents were Oliver and Adalade Ritchey.<\/p>\n

Richard was a WWII Veteran serving in US Navy. He spent the rest of his career in Law Enforcement. He was with the Jefferson County Sheriff\u2019s department, Aspen Police department, Olney (Illinois) Police Department and ended his career as the Chief of Police for the Fountain Police department.<\/p>\n

Richard was very active in his community, he was involved in numerous organizations such as Colorado Law Enforcement Assn. (Past President), Fountain Valley Optimist (past president), Police Protection Assn., National Sheriff\u2019s Assn., Colorado Mounted Rangers (honorary member), Golden City Lodge #1, Life member of BPOE #1055, life member VFW post #6461 and the American Legion post #38.<\/p>\n

Richard is survived by his daughter, Pamela Brown; son, Stanley Ritchey; 4 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by father and mother; wife, Arlene Ritchey; daughter, Patti Lu Racine and son in-law Timothy Brown.<\/p>\n

Visitation will be held Wednesday, May 8, 2019 from 10 to 10:30 am, funeral service at 10:30 a.m. at Dove-Witt Family Mortuary 6630 US Highway 85-87, Fountain, CO. A graveside service will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Castle Rock, CO.<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Fountain Police Department or shield616.org.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Adair Ritchey, born February 10, 1927, in Denver, passed away April 21, 2019 in The Woodlands, Texas. Richard\u2019s parents were Oliver and Adalade Ritchey. Richard was a WWII Veteran serving in US Navy. He spent the rest of his career in Law Enforcement. He was with the Jefferson County Sheriff\u2019s department, Aspen Police department, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 15:38:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}