MARBLEHEAD- Richard Goldsmith, age 82, of Prince Street, Marblehead, husband of June W. (Waterman) Goldsmith, died Thursday, September 27, 2001, in the Salem Hospital following a brief illness.
Born in Salem on September 30, 1918, he was the son of the late Chester A. and May P. (Jenkins) Goldsmith. He received his BA degree from the University of Maine in 1940 and his PhD in geology from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1952.
An Army veteran of WWII, he served in the Asiatic Pacific Theater with battery A, 63rd Anti Aircraft Artillery Battalion and attained the rank of Corporal.
Mr Goldsmith was a geologist with the United States Geologic Survey for his entire adult professional life. He carried out geologic mapping and published many maps and papers on the geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, North Carolina and Colorado, among other places. Sponsored by the US government aid programs with foreign countries, he lived and conducted geologic work in Saudi Arabia and Colombia, South America, for several years in the 1960s.
After living and working for many years in the Washington, D.C. area, he moved back to his native North Shore of Boston settling in Marblehead.
He continued after his retirement to conduct surficial geologic mapping for the State of New Hampshire until shortly before his death.
He was a member of the Geologic Society of America and the Geologic Society of Washington.
Besides his wife of 46 years, he is survived by two sons, Richard Stuart Goldsmith and his wife Linda of Austin, Texas, Charles Goldsmith of Beijing, China, one daughter, Kathryn Goldsmith-DeRagon and her husband Curtis Dragon of Salem, one sister, Rachel Robinson of Bozeman, Montana, two nieces, Sharon Darmofal of Medway, Christine Franquemont of New Haven, CT, two nephews, Thomas Pulsifer pf Xenia, Ohio, and Clark Robinson, Jr. of Chicago, Illinois. He was the brother of the late Desire Goldsmith and Janice P. Pilsifer.
Private funeral services will be held at the convenience of the family. There are no visiting hours.