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  Richard N. Beaty
Richard Norton Beaty was born on January 30, 1920, in New York to Constance Saltonstall Dawbarn Peck, age 28, and Julian Bonar Beaty, age 39. he had three brothers Julian, John and David and a sister Nancy. In Rye his family lived on Dogwood Lane and were members of the Presbyterian Church.
Richard's father was a former mayor of Rye and he was the grandson of the late Harry Thurston Peck, Latin professor and writer. Richard was an alumnus of the Choate School, Princeton University and the Columbia University Law School.
 He lived on Dogwood Lane when he volunteered to be a fighter pilot in the British Royal Air Force in 1940.
Richard was a member of the 133rd Squadron of the Fourth Fighter Group. He was shot down twice and was the sole survivor of an attack by the squadron on German territory. Although reported dead on two occasions he was very much alive.
After the United States entered the war, Richard joined the United States Army Air Forces. He was released from active duty in 1945 with the rank of major.
Post war, Richard graduated from law school in 1948, and in 1950 became partner of the law concern of Cahill, Gordon, Reindel and Ohl, He joined the firm of Loeb & Rhodes in 1959, which he became partner.
He was on the board of governors of the White Plains Hospital. His clubs were the Princeton, St. Anthony's and Lunch of New York, the Quadrangle of Princeton, and the Metropolitan in Washington
His first marriage to the former Helen Corscaden ended in divorce. He later married Judith Helen Loeb, granddaughter of the late Carl M. Loeb.
Richard Norton Beaty, 45, of 60 Lincoln Ave., Purchase, died in his sleep on February 1, 1965.
Besides his parents and wife, he was survived by three sons, Richard Jr., John and Charles of the home address; four daughters, Nancy, Susan, Frances| and Anne of the home address; three, of brothers, Greenwich, Dr.
John Julian T. of New York City and David Englewood, N.J.; and a sister, Miss Nancy Beaty.
Funeral services were held at the Rye Presbyterian Church. (Read Full Obituary)
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Richard N. Beaty 
