LEBANON TWP. -- Richard H. Dillinger II died Monday, Dec. 8, 2008 at the Hunterdon Medical Center. He was 63.

He was born in Albany, N.Y. on March 31, 1945 to Richard H. Dillinger Sr. and Elizabeth Maerz Dillinger. He was a longtime resident of Lebanon Township, NJ.

Mr. Dillinger was a welder and metal fabricator by trade and worked for Coopermatics in Northhampton, Pa. and more recently in the overnight maintenance department at WalMart in Readington Township.

Mr. Dillinger graduated from Greenbrier Military School in West Virginia in 1964. He served in the Army in the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1968 and was awarded the Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal.

A son Richard H. Dillinger III died in 1991 and a sister Judith Ann Fulmer in 1999.

He is survived by beloved wife of 39 years, Mary Dillinger of Lebanon Township; son Eric and his wife Colette Dillinger of Gilbert, Az.; son Peter Dillinger and his companion Brian Rowe of Glen Gardner; and cherished grandchildren Lainey and Thomas Dillinger.