Mr. Dicky R. Gourley

December 26, 1944 - December 12, 2020

Dick R. Gourley went to be with his Lord on December 12, 2020. Born in Franklin, Kentucky on December 26, 1944, Dick spent much of his adult life in Memphis, Tennessee where he served as the Dean of the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. He retired to Knoxville, Tennessee in 2011. His passions and accomplishments were varied including fulfilling a life-long dream of a new pharmacy building for the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, creating an international pharmacy internship program, and crafting reproduction antique furniture, train layouts, and doll houses. He was a letterman in baseball at the University of Tennessee and loved cheering on the Vols at every opportunity. It has been said by those with whom he shared his life that he was a man of integrity, sharing what he had with everyone he encountered. He leaves on this earth his partner in life and wife of 52 years, Greta, and his beloved daughter, Kristin. He also leaves behind his sister, Pat Clubine, and stepbrother Tom Deasy, as well as brothers-in-law Doug Clubine, Taylor Jacobsen, Randy Fletcher, and Dan Kimbrough, and sisters-in-law Vivian Fletcher, Pam Deasy, and Toni Kimbrough, along with many well-loved nieces and nephews and other beloved relatives. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that well-wishers send donations to the Dick R. and Greta A. Gourley scholarship fund established at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy ( www.giving.uthsc.edu/gourley). This fund was established to support students seeking pharmacy degrees since Dick also benefitted from scholarship support when he was a student. There are no plans for funeral services, but his family will celebrate his life at an event in the future.