Dick Carlock, 1942-1992
Obituary
Richard S. Carlock (Dick) was born May 3, 1942, in Wichita, the son of Carl and Margaret Carlock, and died November 5,1992. After graduating from Wichita East, Dick attended Wichita State for his freshman year. He served in the U.S. Army from 1964-1967 and then finished his degree at WSU. He married Sandra K. Teasdale in 1969. They had four children and two adopted children.
Dick earned an insurance CPCU in 1968 and was president of Jaeger Insurance Agency in Kewaunee, Illinois. As insurance agents are necessarily active members of the community, he was a member of the Peoria Shrine, Moline Consistory, Kewaunee Lodge 159, Kiwanis, the Ambassadors Club, the Mississippi Valley Special Olympics, Francis House in Galesburg, and Abilities Plus. He also served as Chairman of the Kewaunee Hospital Foundation.
Survivors include Dick’s wife Sandra; two daughters Christa Fisher of Des Moines and Erin Carlock of Kewaunee; two sons, Derrick and Bradley Carlock, at home in Kewaunee; adopted children Thanh Huyng and Loi Huyng of Bloomington, Illinois; granddaughter Alyssa; and his brothers, Ron Carlock of Ft. Myers, Florida, and Gary Carlock of Wichita, Kansas. Dick is buried in Weathersfield Cemetery in Kewanee, Illinois.
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While at East High, Dick participated in swimming and track. He was known as a 
zany comedian as well as a top student and a leader who was one of East’s representatives to Boys’ State. In the Boys State photo, Dick is in the middle row on the right.
Dick was one of nine men in a well-rehearsed kick line for the “Can-Can Cuties” in the French Club booth at Carnival for Cash, an All-School Project that raised $1600 in 1960.
Always a good sport, Dick joined John Deardorff in agreeing to dress in Elizabethan costumes created by Marilyn Tompkins and Diane Rusch as a project for English Lit. Marilyn remembers that she and Diane got out of writing term papers by doing an “art project.”
Editor’s Note: Thanks to Barb Hammond for contributing to this obituary.
Dick Carlock and I were in the same Sunday school class for many years. We often found something funny during the class and laughed a lot. Finally, our teacher had had enough, and kicked us out of class. Dick and I had a very amusing friendship that lasted for a long time. I never told my parents that we were kicked out, or that we walked upstairs to our 2nd floor class and visited in the hallway for some time. My sister was much smarter than I. She walked into the Sunday school building with all of us and went up the stairs, down the hall and out the back stairs and to a near by coffee shop for the hour. Dick and I were too young to be so bold–and too young to drive!