Richard Elton Tredinnick
October 21, 1936 ~ December 30, 2025
Richard (Dick) Elton Tredinnick, age 89, of Gainesville, VA, passed away on December 30, 2025, after a brief time of home Hospice care.
Dick Tredinnick was born on October 21, 1936, to John Stephen Tredinnick and Christina Frederica Smith in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Colonel Tredinnick spent 34 years in the U.S. Army and retired in 1989.Dick and Carole Pomeroy Tredinnick have 3 children, Jeff, Rick, and John.
After total retirement in 1997, Dick and Carole spent most of 11 years in Christian missions around the world.
Dick is survived by 3 children, 6 grandchildren, and 5 great grandchildren.
There will be a Memorial Service celebrating Dick’s life at Centreville Presbyterian Church. He will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Dates and times for both to be determined.
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Arlington National Cemetery at a later date
1 Memorial Drive
Arlington , VA 22211
703-938-7440
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Love you cousin Dick. You will be greatly missed. Looking forward to seeing you again in heaven one day.
I will miss you so much, Poppy! I will miss our discussions, game playing, puzzle building, and your humor. I will miss how I never really knew if you were “pulling my leg.” I will miss our family gatherings with you and when John, Nathan, and I would meet you for lunch on Sundays after church. Time was too short. I know you are celebrating big time with our Lord and Savior, Jesus!
Colonel Tredinnick vastly changed the landscape of my family’s life when Carole and he befriended my parents back in Mannheim.
The fellow Northeastern alumnus introduced my parents to real faith in Christ Jesus thus changing the whole trajectory of our lives.
When my own parents passed away and many were comforting me with how Bob and Carolyn impacted their lives I pointed it back to King Jesus and the Tredinnicks.
I mourn with the extended family and also rejoice in the promise of reunion for those He calls His own.
Love you, Treddinicks
My dear Tredinnicks,
My heart weeps along with yours. Your father was such an incredible man who encouraged my family in faith, grace, and hospitality. It is because of your parents that my parents encountered life-changing salvation through Jesus Christ and changed the trajectory of our lives. The postings in France, Ft. Monmouth, Germany, and Virginia, built friendships not only between our parents, but between us children too. Jeff, John, and Dick inviting me and my daughters to family celebrations and shows at Centreville Pres, grew the friendship to the next generation. As you walked with me through the losses of Dad and Mom, your hugs, stories, prayers, and presence strengthened us all. I know I speak for all of my family as I offer my deepest condolences….but what a reunion he’s having now. I’m praying you find unexpected joys as your journey through this season of loss.
We thank him for his service. So sorry to hear of his passing.
When I married into the Webb family in 1993, I very soon realized that I was also marrying into an extended family with the entire Tredinnick clan. My first impression of Col. Tredinnick was that of a kind, Godly, and wise man with a mischievous glint in his eyes – and all of those things proved to be so true of his nature in the years that I knew him after that.
I am honored to have known Mr. Tredinnick as well as his late wife Mrs. Tredinnick. (Yes, I am old-school – I could never think of them by any other name other than “Mr. and Mrs. Tredinnick”, but although that sounds formal, they were both like a second set of loving in-laws to me!) I will miss the lively banter with Mr. Tredinnick from all of those Webb/Tredinnick bulgogi parties!
I can tell just from some of the posts on this guest book that through their faithful service to our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, Mr. and Mrs. Tredinnick made an eternal impact on many that continues through the generations just like ripples in a pond from a pebble thrown in.
I am grateful for the friendships I have developed with all of the Tredinnick family and am sad for each of them as I know they will deeply miss him. I know he is probably up in Heaven wearing that baseball hat with the attached ponytail, laughing it up with Jesus and being reunited with many loved ones who have gone Home before him. I know I’ll be able to give him and Mrs. Tredinnick big bear hugs when I see them again one day.
For the Tredinnicks on this side of Heaven, I send you much love and giant hugs!