Retirement
Alfred Carroll Richmond retired from the United States Coast Guard on June 1, 1962 and moved to Claremont, California, where he served as a civil defense official for a time. His first wife, Gretchen Campbell, with whom he had two sons, John M. Richmond, his first born, and Alfred C. Richmond Jr., died in 1974. Gretchen was privileged to christen the replica Columbia Rediviva in 1958 at the famed Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California. He died of cancer at the age of 82 in Claremont and is buried alongside her at Arlington National Cemetery.
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