OBITUARY INFORMATION FROM FIND-A-GRAVE WEBSITE:

Richard William Hamilton
Birth          23 Oct 1922, Gary, Lake County, Indiana, USA
Death          12 Oct 1946 (aged 23), Lake County, Indiana, USA
Burial         Evergreen Memorial Park, Hobart, Lake County, Indiana, USA
Memorial ID    158177812

This information and the picture below were obtained from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158177812/richard-william-hamilton. The picture above was obtained from the 1942 HHS Ho-Hi Life yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1942Images/.

INFORMATION FROM FAMILY SEARCH:

Brief Life History of Richard

When Richard Hamilton was born on 23 October 1922, in Indiana, United States, his father, Harold Huntley Hamilton, was 36 and his mother, Hazel Eseline Boyington, was 30. He lived in Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1935 and Hobart, Ross Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 13 October 1946, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 23.

This information was obtained from: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/GSMR-4YT.

OBITUARY ARTICLE FROM VIDETTE-MESSENGER (VALPARAISO, IN), OCTOBER 14, 1946:

This obituary was obtained via Newspapers.com, at: https://www.newspapers.com/article/vidette-messenger-of-porter-county/153010239/.