E. Richard Benedict died at his home with his family beside him on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at age 92. He was born in Missoula, Montana, to Ruby R. Jewett Benedict and Thomas Richard Benedict at the Tooele Avenue home of his maternal grandparents, Aurora and Myron Jewett. Within a few days of his birth on August 27, 1919, Richard and his mother returned to their home in Gilmore, Idaho, on the Gilmore and Pittsburgh, to rejoin Thomas.