On October 14, 1944, he married Ruth in West Suffield, CT and together they moved to Southwick in 1947 and began a successful dairy farm later known as Ru-Rich Holstein Farm. (Dick was given the exclusive use of the name Ru-Rich as a herd name by the Holstein-Friesian Association of America.) In their later years, Dick and Ruth enjoyed traveling to places such as Hawaii, Las Vegas and the Bahama