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September 29, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, October 3, 2011 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, NJ, 07470
Richard O. Ullman, age 70 of Windermere, Florida, died on Thursday, September 29, 2011 at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City. Dick had lived in Wayne, New Jersey most of his life before moving to Windermere five years ago.
Dick was born in Plainfield, Vermont, to Arthur Albert Ullman (who had a degree from Syracuse University and further studied at Harvard University) and Anne Marie (Hinken) Ullman, where his dad was Landscape Architect with the Civilian Conservation Corps. They moved to Springtown, PA when he was just a baby and in 1945, when he was only four years old, they settled in Preakness, NJ which ultimately became a section of Wayne. The move to Wayne was prompted by the passing of grandpa Hinken; the family settled into 910 Hamburg Turnpike to better take care of grandma Anne Marie (Tweitmann) Hinken. Preakness was popular among horse racing enthusiasts at that time because of an annual race there, called “The Preakness”. The race track eventually closed, but the famed “Preakness” race was moved to Pimlico race track in Maryland, where it famously still runs today as part of the Triple Crown. As a kid, Dick undoubtedly attended some of those early horse races at Preakness.
He attended elementary school at the now historically preserved Preakness School House in Wayne. Dick would sometimes tell the story of how he would watch planes fly in and out of the Murchio Airfield that used to exist right across the street from his elementary school. One day he interrupted his teacher and said “I just saw a plane crash”. The teacher quickly reprimanded him for daydreaming and making up the story only to find out later that, in fact, a plane had tragically crashed and Dick was among the few witnesses. That grass airfield, which has since been developed into homes, is all that separates his elementary school from the historic Preakness Reformed Church, where his funeral service will be held on Tuesday. Dick went on to graduate high school in 1959 as the first class to attend the newly constructed Wayne High School for four years, from Freshman to Senior.
A graduate of Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, Dick began his career filling prescriptions at the Preakness Pharmacy in Wayne. He often said that the reason he became a pharmacist was because “He could get a job filling prescriptions anywhere in the country and support his family.” He grew to love the industry and made monumental contributions during his career. He helped design the very first prescription benefit plans in the 1970's, and was proud of having the longest continuous experience in that industry, in the nation. He went on to become a successful entrepreneur first founding National Prescription Administrators, Inc. which he built into the largest privately held prescription benefit manager in the nation with over 1,500 employees. He later founded Benecard Services, Inc., a prescription benefit facilitator, headquartered in Orlando, FL with offices in Clifton and Lawrenceville, NJ and Mechanicsburg, PA. He was very proud of his business accomplishments and particularly happy to have done this with his two sons, Kenneth and Richard, working by his side.
Dick also believed strongly in ‘giving back’. For many years he was co-chairman for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Long Island University, on the Advisory Board of the Valley National Bank, Wayne, NJ, as well as several other philanthropic endeavors.
Dick, who was a devoted family man, had many passions included a love of cars. As a young man, he never drove the same car for very long and was always looking for another project car that he could repair or fix-up into something better. He simply loved his cars; fixing cars, driving cars, and he turned this passion into a lifelong hobby, building a wonderful collection over the years. He also loved golfing, which he played as a member of Isleworth CC in FL and Upper Montclair CC in NJ.
Dick was a man of strong faith and a member of the Preakness Reformed Church in Wayne, NJ and the Presbyterian Church of the Lakes in Windermere, FL.
Dick is survived by his loving wife Barbara Marcin Ullman of Windermere, FL, his three children; Kenneth and his wife Nadine of Naples, FL, Richard A. and his wife Lisa of Franklin Lakes, NJ, and Jennifer Royall and her husband Walker of Dallas, TX, seven grandchildren; Devin, Zachary, Jacob, Jordan, Davis, Walker, and Drake, one brother; Arthur Ullman Jr. and his wife Judy of Irving, TX, and two sisters; Erika Leal and her husband Ron of Palm Coast, FL, and Gretchen Ullman of Pompton Lakes, NJ, as well as many nieces and nephews.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, October 3, 2011 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, NJ, 07470
September 29, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, October 3, 2011 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, NJ, 07470
Richard O. Ullman, age 70 of Windermere, Florida, died on Thursday, September 29, 2011 at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City. Dick had lived in Wayne, New Jersey most of his life before moving to Windermere five years ago.
Dick was born in Plainfield, Vermont, to Arthur Albert Ullman (who had a degree from Syracuse University and further studied at Harvard University) and Anne Marie (Hinken) Ullman, where his dad was Landscape Architect with the Civilian Conservation Corps. They moved to Springtown, PA when he was just a baby and in 1945, when he was only four years old, they settled in Preakness, NJ which ultimately became a section of Wayne. The move to Wayne was prompted by the passing of grandpa Hinken; the family settled into 910 Hamburg Turnpike to better take care of grandma Anne Marie (Tweitmann) Hinken. Preakness was popular among horse racing enthusiasts at that time because of an annual race there, called “The Preakness”. The race track eventually closed, but the famed “Preakness” race was moved to Pimlico race track in Maryland, where it famously still runs today as part of the Triple Crown. As a kid, Dick undoubtedly attended some of those early horse races at Preakness.
He attended elementary school at the now historically preserved Preakness School House in Wayne. Dick would sometimes tell the story of how he would watch planes fly in and out of the Murchio Airfield that used to exist right across the street from his elementary school. One day he interrupted his teacher and said “I just saw a plane crash”. The teacher quickly reprimanded him for daydreaming and making up the story only to find out later that, in fact, a plane had tragically crashed and Dick was among the few witnesses. That grass airfield, which has since been developed into homes, is all that separates his elementary school from the historic Preakness Reformed Church, where his funeral service will be held on Tuesday. Dick went on to graduate high school in 1959 as the first class to attend the newly constructed Wayne High School for four years, from Freshman to Senior.
A graduate of Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, Dick began his career filling prescriptions at the Preakness Pharmacy in Wayne. He often said that the reason he became a pharmacist was because “He could get a job filling prescriptions anywhere in the country and support his family.” He grew to love the industry and made monumental contributions during his career. He helped design the very first prescription benefit plans in the 1970's, and was proud of having the longest continuous experience in that industry, in the nation. He went on to become a successful entrepreneur first founding National Prescription Administrators, Inc. which he built into the largest privately held prescription benefit manager in the nation with over 1,500 employees. He later founded Benecard Services, Inc., a prescription benefit facilitator, headquartered in Orlando, FL with offices in Clifton and Lawrenceville, NJ and Mechanicsburg, PA. He was very proud of his business accomplishments and particularly happy to have done this with his two sons, Kenneth and Richard, working by his side.
Dick also believed strongly in ‘giving back’. For many years he was co-chairman for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Long Island University, on the Advisory Board of the Valley National Bank, Wayne, NJ, as well as several other philanthropic endeavors.
Dick, who was a devoted family man, had many passions included a love of cars. As a young man, he never drove the same car for very long and was always looking for another project car that he could repair or fix-up into something better. He simply loved his cars; fixing cars, driving cars, and he turned this passion into a lifelong hobby, building a wonderful collection over the years. He also loved golfing, which he played as a member of Isleworth CC in FL and Upper Montclair CC in NJ.
Dick was a man of strong faith and a member of the Preakness Reformed Church in Wayne, NJ and the Presbyterian Church of the Lakes in Windermere, FL.
Dick is survived by his loving wife Barbara Marcin Ullman of Windermere, FL, his three children; Kenneth and his wife Nadine of Naples, FL, Richard A. and his wife Lisa of Franklin Lakes, NJ, and Jennifer Royall and her husband Walker of Dallas, TX, seven grandchildren; Devin, Zachary, Jacob, Jordan, Davis, Walker, and Drake, one brother; Arthur Ullman Jr. and his wife Judy of Irving, TX, and two sisters; Erika Leal and her husband Ron of Palm Coast, FL, and Gretchen Ullman of Pompton Lakes, NJ, as well as many nieces and nephews.
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