Richard Warren Sears Iii

In Loving Memory of

Richard Warren Sears, III

January 25, 1973 – February 22, 2021

Celebration of Life

Mountain View Funeral Home

Mesa, Arizona

March 8, 2021, 3:00 P.M.

Richard Warren Sears, III (Rick) was born in Lake Forest, Illinois on January 25, 1973.  He left this earth on February 22, 2021 in Mesa, Arizona.  He was the namesake and a great grandson of Richard Warren Sears, the founder of Sears, Roebuck & Co.

He is survived by his mother, Darlene Nelson Sears Sanders (Roland W. Sanders, Jr., D.V.M.), of Florida; his father Carroll Sears (Inge Sears), of North Carolina; two sons, Jeffrey Warren Sears, of Michigan, and Private First Class Michael Gene Sears, U.S. Marine Corp; brothers Robert Burnette, of Arizona, Charles Burnette, of Tennessee, Michael Burnette, of Alaska, and Jonah Sanders, of Florida; his uncle Eugene Nelson (Sharon Nelson), of Illinois; cousins Jon Nelson, of Illinois, and Lisa Caryl, of North Carolina.  He is also survived by many great nieces and nephews and numerous great, great aunts and uncles and second cousins as well as many close friends.  He was preceded in death by his brother Thomas Nelson Sears, his sister Barbara Sears Napier, and his grandparents, Arthur W. and Evona Nelson, of Arizona and Illinois.

Rick grew up in Lake Forest and Highland Park, Illinois and attended the Bannockburn School in Lake County, Illinois, high school at Red Mountain High School in Mesa, Arizona and the Judson School in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he graduated in 1992.

Rick was an expert carpenter and handyman, and his passions were riding motorcycles, riding quad-runners in the desert, shooting, and gathering friends to grill and show off his grilling skills.

He loved children and was a generous person who loved helping others and often put his own needs aside to help his friends.  He had the biggest heart and always knew the right words to say.  He loved his work, was proud of the work he did and developed close relationships with his clients, often caring for them when they fell ill, driving them to doctor appointments, bringing them food, helping them around the house and with basic daily tasks, a true caregiver.

Rick loved life and no matter what challenges he endured, always wore the biggest smile and told the funniest and sometimes even crude jokes.  He took things in stride and looked at tomorrow as a new day.  He had many friends and was everyone's rock, but even rocks crumble sometimes.

Rick will be greatly missed by everyone but has left us with a lifetime of memories to share, stories and jokes to tell.

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Time: Mar 8, 2021 03:00 PM Arizona

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