Richard William Homan

Pawnee City, NE

1938-40, 2756, American Island, SCS-7, M.D. Camp Surgeon (ROTC Commissioned, 1935)
1940-41, 2765, Ft. Meade, SCS-6 ???, M.D. Camp Surgeon

Richard William Homan, 87, of Omaha died Thursday, April 2, 1998, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

Services are 10 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Cross Catholic Church with the Rev. Charles Swanson officiating. Burial is in Calvary Mausoleum II.

Visitation is 3 p.m. Monday until the 7 p.m. wake service at the Heafey-Heafey-Hoffmann-Dworak and Cutler Westcenter Chapel in Omaha.

Mr. Homan was born Sept. 29, 1910, in Bellwood to Benjamin and Katherine (Steiner) Homan. He graduated from Marietta Catholic High School near Bellwood and from Creighton University School of Medicine in 1935.

At Creighton he was a member of the Army ROTC and the band.

He married Veronica Delahunty on June 20, 1935. He opened a medical practice in Steinauer. He lived there and in Pawnee City until 1939 when he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps as a physician serving in Chamberlain and Sturgis, S.D.

In 1941, he entered the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps. He served in Hawaii and the South Pacific in World War II and left the Army as a major.

He opened a practice in Crete where he and his family lived until 1962. While in Crete, he was active in the Jaycees, Knights of Columbus and church and school activities in Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

He edited the Cornhusker GP, the publication of the organization of Nebraska physicians in general practice. In 1962, he moved to Omaha and joined the staff of the Veterans Administration Hospital as admissions physician, a position he held until his retirement in March 1981.

In Omaha he was a member of the church where he was an Eucharistic minister and was active in prayer groups and other church activities.

Survivors include five daughters, Sister Thomasita of Atchison, Kan., Sheila Homan Schilling of Franklin, Mass., Kathleen Claussen of Albuquerque, N.M., Brenda Connor of Southampton, Mass., and Margaret Petersen of Omaha; three sons, Richard L. of Bethesda, Md., Thomas of Mussoorie, India, and Michael of Omaha; two sisters, Mary Schupbach of Columbus and Delores Weber of Eureka Springs, Ark.; three brothers, Art of David City, John of Columbus and George of Omaha; 16 grandchildren and one great- grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his wife in January; two sisters, Esther Miller and Edna Oppliger; and one brother, Ben.

Memorials may be given to the Holy Cross Educational Trust or Benedictine Convent in Atchison.

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