Richard Jeffers Obituary

Age - 93

September 11, 2023

Homewood, AL

Richard Lamar (Dick) Jeffers, Jr. passed away peacefully on September 8, 2023 due to complications from Alzheimer's Disease. He was proceeded in death by his parents, Richard Jeffers, Sr. and Rhea Hancock Jeffers and his second wife, Jane McDowell Jeffers. Dick attended Mountain Brook Grammar School and graduated from Baylor Military School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended the University of Alabama where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Dick was a lifelong proud and active Alabama football fan, a season ticket holder and a member of the Alabama Jefferson County Alumni Association. Dick served in the 31st Division of the U. S. Army during the Korean conflict. After his service he was a part owner of Oxford Furniture Galleries, selling his interest in 1976 and beginning a career in the real estate industry. In 1992, Dick retired and moved to Magnolia Springs , Alabama where for 20 years he was involved in the construction and operation of the Kiva Dunes Golf Course in Fort Morgan, Alabama. During his retirement in Magnolia Springs Dick tried many hobbies with vary degrees of success, such as boating, fishing, vegetable gardening, raising chickens, bee keeping and competing in chili cookoffs. Dick was a long time member of the Country Club of Birmingham where he served on the Board of Directors for 12 years, serving twice as Golf Chairman and as the first Chairman of the Fitness Program. He served 22 years as a U. S. Golf Association committeeman with a special interest in junior golf. He was also a coach and the commissioner for Mountain Brook Dixie Youth Baseball for many years. Dick was a handsome, kind, charming, happy and popular man who lived by the axiom "Hail fellow, well met". He loved life, his family and friends, all sports, especially Alabama football and golf, Reese's peanut butter cups and his many dogs, especially Rosie. Dick was first married to the former Kathryn Butler and is survived by their two children: Kathryn Jeffers Pearce (Mikell) and Richard Lamar Jeffers, III (Carolyn). He is also survived by three stepchildren: John Richard Shoemaker, Frank Shoemaker and Emily Shoemaker Christian (Edward) as well as five grandchildren, five step grandchildren and one great grandchild. There will be a private family service. A reception for family and friends will be held in the Grill of the Country Club of Birmingham on Wednesday, September 13 from 5pm to 6:30pm. The family would be grateful for memorial made to the O'Neal Library, 50 Oak Street, Mountain Brook, AL. 35213, the USGA Junior Golf Program, 77 Liberty Corner Road, Liberty Corner, NJ 07938 or USGA. org or a charity of your choice. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www. ridoutsvalleychapel. com for the Jeffers family.

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