Richard Sinderson Obituary

Richard Lowell Sinderson, Jr. was born on December 30, 1935, in Houston, Texas. He enjoyed outdoor activities, becoming a Boy Scout earning the rank of Eagle Scout. During his student days at Houston's Lamar High School his swim team won the Texas State Championship three consecutive years. He attended Rice University and graduated in 1958 from The University of Texas with a degree in Electrical Engineering. When he was 21 years old, he took a spring-summer sabbatical from college, and traveled to Paris, France where he lived a few months and then hitch hiked around Europe with a friend for $2.00 a day. He remembered that adventure for the rest of his life.

Richard worked at NASA for 35 years where he worked on many interesting projects including being the chief designer of the communications equipment on the Apollo Astronaut lunar rover. His device is included in the moon landing display at the Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Richard loved the outdoors and spent several years of retirement living in and around Durango, Colorado, where he helped to build seven houses for Habitat for Humanity. He loved hiking, backpacking, travel, winter sports/skiing, and gardening around his home and the church at Lake Vallecito.

On June 6, 2009, Richard married Louise B. Powell after a long courtship during which he sent her several love poems he wrote. He left his beloved Colorado and moved to be with her and live in Kerrville, Texas, near her two daughters and their families. They would return to the Lake Vallecito each summer to spend three months until Louise died in 2022, and then he returned to the same area for two years after that, still staying in the little cabin on the lake where they had stayed for many years.

Richard died on August 15, 2025, in Dallas, Texas. He is preceded death by his parents, Richard L. Sinderson, Sr. and Marie Elizabeth Berger Sinderson, and his brother, Terry Sinderson, and is survived by his sister, Diane Barron and husband, Wayne, his sister-in-law, Rhonda Sinderson, many cousins, nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews, and two stepdaughters Sharon Bayless and Suzan Fenner and their families.