Richard Stewart

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Richard Stewart
Place of birth: El Paso[1][2], El Paso County, Texas, United States
Date of birth: 1925-01-05[3]
Date of death: 19xx-xx-xx (age -26-74)
Company(ies): Service Games, Hawaii; Service Games, Japan; Service Games, Panama; Club Specialty Overseas, Inc.; Nihon Goraku Bussan, Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Role(s): Executive

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Richard Davant Stewart III[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] was an American businessman and former Service Games key executive.

Personal life

Richard Stewart and his brother James Stewart as infants

Richard Stewart was born in El Paso, Texas on January 5, 1925 to Richard Davant Stewart Jr.[4][13][14], a service station operator from Canutillo, Texas (son of Richard Davant Stewart Sr.[15][16][17] and Anne Caroline Hardy Stewart, both of Tyler, Alabama), and Mary Vermillion Stewart,[18][19][20] a schoolteacher (later Mary Vermillion Johnson[21][22], daughter of Dr. Henry Franklin Vermillion,[23][24][25][26][27] founder and first superintendent of the Southern Baptist Sanatorium[28][29][30][31][32] of El Paso, Texas and Ida Kate Gray Vermillion[33][34], both of Eastland, Texas) and his brothers were William Robert Stewart and Henry Vermillion Stewart, both of San Francisco, California and James Franklin Stewart[1][2][35], a rancher from Kelowna[36][37], British Columbia, Canada, who ran the Casorso, Bulman and Chilco ranches under the business name of Kelowna Ranch, Inc.[38] (incorporated on April 27, 1960[39] as Kelowna Ranches, Ltd.[40][41][42]), all descendants, through their father, of the Davant family[43], a Huguenot family who emigrated from England to Georgia in the 1700s.

From left to right, Henry Vermillion Stewart, William Robert Stewart, James Franklin Stewart and Richard Davant Stewart

Richard Stewart married on June 19, 1949[5][6][7][44][45] in Honolulu with Nannette "Nettie" Adele Gomes[46][47], an usherette at the Waikiki Theatre (daughter of Jesse August Gomes, a United States Navy boatswain's mate at Pearl Harbor[48][49] and Adele Caroline McKeague, both of Honolulu[50][51]) and they had three children, namely Scott Kamana Stewart[52] (born July 1951), Grant Meiji Stewart (born October 1957) and Ray Taisho Stewart[46][47] (born September 1960).

Three of Richard Stewart's uncles, namely William Champneys Stewart IV[53], Judson Dunaway Stewart[53] and James Ogilvie Stewart Sr.[53][54], were well known distributors of petroleum produtcs in El Paso County. William Champneys Stewart IV owned the Humble Oil & Refining Company[53], Judson Dunaway Stewart owned the Service Oil Sales Company[55] and James Ogilvie Stewart Sr. owned the J. O. Stewart Oil Company[56][57]. His cousin, James Ogilvie Stewart Jr.[58] (son of James Ogilvie Stewart Sr.) was the founder of El Paso-based waste management company International Environmental Industries known as El Paso Disposal[59], acquired in 1999[60] by Roseville-based company Waste Connections.

Career

Stewart depicted with some of his employees in front of Service Games, Japan headquarters in 1957.[61][62]

Photographs

Main article: Photos of Richard Stewart

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 https://issuu.com/kelownacapitalnews/docs/29_april_2011/48
  2. 2.0 2.1 File:KelownaCapitalNews CA 2011-04-29, Page 48 B12.png
  3. Fraud and Corruption in Management of Military Club Systems/Illegal Currency Manipulations Affecting South Vietnam: US Senate Hearings (1969-09-30 — 1969-10-07), page 1840
  4. 4.0 4.1 File:ElPasoTimes US 1936-02-21, Page 7.png
  5. 5.0 5.1 File:TheHonoluluAdvertiser US 1949-06-20, Page 6.png
  6. 6.0 6.1 File:Honolulu Star-Bulletin US 1949-07-02, Page 21 SS13.png
  7. 7.0 7.1 File:TheHonoluluAdvertiser US 1949-07-03, Page 15 SS5.png
  8. Cash Box, "March 21, 1970" (US; 1970-03-21), page 71
  9. File:Honolulu Star-Bulletin US 1952-03-25; page 20.png
  10. File:TheHonoluluAdvertiser US 1955-06-24; page 21 (C5).png
  11. File:TheHonoluluAdvertiser US 1956-03-09; page 19 (B7).png
  12. File:Honolulu Star-Bulletin US 1962-06-26; page 3 (1-B).png
  13. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106689195/richard-davant-stewart (archive.today)
  14. https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2019/180/UNCEM_2211159_447481d2-aea4-4380-8924-e2d9f30c4cd0.jpeg (archive.today)
  15. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KWJ6-RPJ/richard-davant-stewart-1875-1954
  16. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106689185/richard-davant-stewart (archive.today)
  17. https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2019/78/UNCEM_2211159_be68bc91-00b5-42a9-b50a-797c3c5ea658.jpeg (archive.today)
  18. File:ElPasoTimes US 1942-03-08, Page 13.png
  19. File:ElPasoTimes US 1947-03-09, Page 15.png
  20. File:ElPasoTimes US 1957-10-27, Page 33 3-C.png
  21. File:TucsonCitizen US 1967-10-31, Page 13.png
  22. File:ElPasoTimes US 1985-06-05, Page 8 2-B.png
  23. File:ElPasoHerald US 1922-10-11, Page 1.png
  24. File:ElPasoTimes US 1951-04-15, Page 1.png
  25. File:ElPasoTimes US 1951-04-15, Page 13.png
  26. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50957416/henry-franklin-vermillion (archive.today)
  27. https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2012/296/50957416_135105398656.jpg (archive.today)
  28. https://www.sketchclub.net/p/mt-franklin-country-club.html (archive.today)
  29. File:ElPasoCityDirectory Book US 1919, Page 682.png
  30. File:ElPasoCityDirectory Book US 1922, Page 848.png
  31. https://www.periodpaper.com/products/1926-ad-southern-baptist-sanitarium-el-paso-texas-tb-original-advertising-001211-sanitarium-047 (archive.today)
  32. https://www.etsy.com/hk-en/listing/713327609/1929-ad-baptist-sanatorium-el-paso-tx (archive.today)
  33. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/433269016/ (Wayback Machine: 2020-11-04 14:47)
  34. File:ElPasoTimes US 1959-12-03, Page 1.png
  35. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/436227492/ (Wayback Machine: 2020-11-04 11:32)
  36. https://i.ibb.co/3rxXNtJ/Chilcotin-Preserving-Pioneer-Memories-Book-CA-1995-Page-160.png (archive.today)
  37. Press release: 1969-08-13: Mining executive takes over B.C.'s "bad luck" ranch (The Province, Page 7)
  38. Fraud and Corruption in Management of Military Club Systems/Illegal Currency Manipulations Affecting South Vietnam: US Senate Hearings (1969-09-30 — 1969-10-07), page 1924
  39. File:TheBritishColumbiaGazette CA 1960-05-05 (by Government of British Columbia).pdf, page 18
  40. https://books.google.com/books?id=rQkWAQAAMAAJ&q=%22+kelowna+ranches+,+ltd.%22&dq=
  41. File:TheProvince CA 1961-10-31, Page 12.png
  42. File:TheDailyColonist CA 1966-11-15.pdf, page 7
  43. File:TransactionsoftheHuguenotSocietyofSouthCarolina Book US 75 1970 (by Order of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina).pdf, page 120
  44. File:Marriage Record of Richard Davant Stewart III (Hawaii, Board of Health, Marriage Record Indexes, 1909-1989).pdf
  45. File:Marriage Record of Nannette Adele Gomes (Hawaii, Board of Health, Marriage Record Indexes, 1909-1989).pdf
  46. 46.0 46.1 File:Federal Register, Vol. 78 Nº 219, 2013-11-13 (by Office of the Federal Register, United States Government Printing Office).pdf, page 241
  47. 47.0 47.1 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2013-11-13/html/2013-27072.htm (Wayback Machine: 2022-08-01 19:09)
  48. https://sg30p0.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/dascloud/patron/v2/TH-904-77421-91-54/dist.jpg?ctx=ArtCtxPublic (Wayback Machine: 2022-10-17 05:31)
  49. http://www.interment.net/data/us/hi/oahu/natmem/hawaii_gigon.htm (Wayback Machine: 2021-09-04 04:02)
  50. File:RecordOfIssueOfLicenseToMarry US 1924-07-24; O-99 No 27, page 12 (by Ulukau, The Hawaiian Electronic Library).pdf
  51. https://ulukau.org/algene/cgi-bin/algene?e=d-0algene-algene-00CL1.12--0CL1.12-0-2-010---4------0-1l-4-1en-Zz-1---20-introduction-tom--0003141-0000utfZz-8-00en-Zz-1---20-about---00-1-1-00-0-0-000utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=algene&cl=CL1.12&d=12-000056
  52. Press release: 1995-09-20: Photos portray Hawaii tradition
  53. 53.0 53.1 53.2 53.3 File:ElPasoTimes US 1978-06-06, Page 26 6-D.png
  54. https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/james-ogilvie-stewart-24-bkrrrp (archive.today)
  55. File:ElPasoTimes US 1963-02-17, Page 39 9-D.png
  56. File:ElPasoTimes US 1959-12-19, Page 25.png
  57. File:ElPasoTimes US 1961-06-24, Page 10.png
  58. File:ElPasoTimes US 1995-05-13, Page 42 8D.png
  59. https://www.elpasodisposal.com/
  60. File:ElPasoTimes US 1999-08-17, Page 18 10B.png
  61. http://www.sega-mechatro.com/whats/history/his_01.html (Wayback Machine: 2004-08-18 18:46)
  62. http://www.sega-mechatro.com/whats/history/his_side.html (Wayback Machine: 2004-08-13 20:20)


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