Services for Ric Kirkish, 68, president of the Aptos
Seascape Men’s Club 2003-2004, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 6, at Venture Christian Church, 16845 Hicks Rd., Los Gatos. He died March 11 at the
VA Hospital in Palo Alto.
Richard Kirkish was born on the Fourth of July 1944 in San Francisco, the son of
Nassim and Maria Tompson Kirkish. He grew up mostly in Cupertino
but graduated from Monterey
Bay Academy.
Ric later joined the U.S. Navy, serving in the Seabees in Vietnam from
1968-1970.
He had been drawn to the stair-building business by his
uncle Ned Kirkish and later transformed his Campbell
company, Kirkish Stairs, into Stairbuilders Inc., with headquarters in San Jose. Ric was active
in the Building Industry Association and participated in writing the California uniform
building code for stair construction.
After the downturn in the home construction business, Kirkish closed Stairbuilders Inc. in 2010 and the following year earned his real estate license, practicing with Alain Pinel Realtors in Los Gatos.
“His heart was into cars,” Sue Kirkish, his wife of 32
years, said of Ric, who collected and showed Corvettes, winning several awards
for his prized possessions.
ASMC members know his heart was also into golf and Seascape,
where he was an avid and competitive player for years as well as a popular
men’s club board member and president.
Ric was diagnosed with lung cancer the week before this past
Christmas and the disease had already spread into other parts of his body.
In addition to Sue Kirkish of Los Gatos,
Ric is survived by a daughter from an earlier marriage, Nicole Kettermann of
Lacey, WA, and two step-children, Jeffrey Michael Goldsmith of Newport
Beach and Jondel Suzanne Goldsmith of Malibu.
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