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: 2020-11-30[4][5] (age 95)
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[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] 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.[6][15][16][17], a service station operator from Canutillo, Texas (son of Richard Davant Stewart Sr.[18][19][20] and Anne Caroline Hardy Stewart, both of Tyler, Alabama), and Mary Vermillion Stewart,[21][22][23][17] a schoolteacher (later Mary Vermillion Johnson[24][25], daughter of Dr. Henry Franklin Vermillion,[26][27][28][29][30] founder and first superintendent of the Southern Baptist Sanatorium[31][32][33][34][35] of El Paso, Texas and Ida Kate Gray Vermillion[36][37], 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][38], a rancher from Kelowna[39][40][41], British Columbia, Canada, who ran the Casorso, Bulman and Chilco ranches under the business name of Kelowna Ranch, Inc.[42] (incorporated on April 27, 1960[43] as Kelowna Ranches, Ltd.[44][45][46][47]), all descendants, through their father, of the Davant family[48], 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[7][8][9][49][50] in Honolulu with Nannette "Nettie" Adele Gomes[51][52], an usherette at the Waikiki Theatre (daughter of Jesse August Gomes, a United States Navy boatswain's mate at Pearl Harbor[53][54] and Adele Caroline McKeague, both of Honolulu[55][56]) and they had four children, namely Scott Kamana Stewart[57] (born on July 23, 1951[58] in Honolulu, Hawaii), Leslie Stewart (currently Leslie Balfour-Lynn[59][60][61][62], born on August 16, 1953[58] in Tokyo, Japan), Grant Meiji Stewart (born on October 3, 1957[58] in Tokyo, Japan) and Ray Taisho Stewart[51][52] (born on September 1, 1960[58] in Tokyo, Japan).

Three of Richard Stewart's uncles, namely William Champneys Stewart IV[63], Judson Dunaway Stewart[63] and James Ogilvie Stewart Sr.[63][64], were well known distributors of petroleum produtcs in El Paso County. William Champneys Stewart IV owned the Humble Oil & Refining Company[63], Judson Dunaway Stewart owned the Service Oil Sales Company[65] and James Ogilvie Stewart Sr. owned the J. O. Stewart Oil Company[66][67]. His cousin, James Ogilvie Stewart Jr.[68] (son of James Ogilvie Stewart Sr.) was the founder of El Paso-based waste management company International Environmental Industries known as El Paso Disposal[69], acquired in 1999[70] by Roseville-based company Waste Connections.

Career

Stewart depicted with some of his employees in front of Service Games, Japan headquarters in 1957.[71][72]

Photographs

Main article: Photos of Richard Stewart

External links

References

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  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
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  5. Interview: Eduardo Morales-Hermo (2022-10-05) by Sega-16
  6. 6.0 6.1 File:ElPasoTimes US 1936-02-21, Page 7.png
  7. 7.0 7.1 File:TheHonoluluAdvertiser US 1949-06-20, Page 6.png
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  14. File:Honolulu Star-Bulletin US 1962-06-26; page 3 (1-B).png
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  48. File:TransactionsoftheHuguenotSocietyofSouthCarolina Book US 75 1970 (by Order of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina).pdf, page 120
  49. File:Marriage Record of Richard Davant Stewart III (Hawaii, Board of Health, Marriage Record Indexes, 1909-1989).pdf
  50. File:Marriage Record of Nannette Adele Gomes (Hawaii, Board of Health, Marriage Record Indexes, 1909-1989).pdf
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