Richard Price Lechleiter of Nashville, Tennessee

June 7, 1931 - March 2, 2022

Lechleiter, Richard Price died on March the 2nd of 2022 at age 90, a native Nashvillian. Preceded in death by parents Ellielyn Lewis and John H. Lechleiter; brother John H Lechleiter Jr., sisters Ellielyn Frost and Bettye Mallory. Survived by wife of 70 years Shirley Berger Lechleiter, sons Price (Kit) and Sam (Sidney) and grandsons Lex (Hannah), Logan, and Gabe (Callie), and numerous nieces and nephews. His father, a prominent attorney, was a Nashville city councilman, a member of the Tennessee State Legislature and a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. Dick attended Aiken, Calvert, and Duncan Preparatory Schools, Vanderbilt University and the YMCA night Law School. He served in the United States Air Force for 4 years during the Korean conflict and was a clerk in the Air University Headquarters Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama for more than three of those years. He attended Jones Night Law School in downtown Montgomery and was a vice president of the sigma Delta Kappa legal fraternity. Beginning at age 16 Dick worked in the taxicab industry in Nashville for 59 years and was President of Checker Cab Transit Corporation from 1957 until 2006 when he sold the company and retired. Active in Boy Scouts he was a Cubmaster at Julia Green School for ten years and received the Long Rifle Award from the West District of the Middle Tennessee Council, Boy Scouts of America. He was also president of the Middle Tennessee Alumni Association of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. An active member of Christ Episcopal Church he served several terms on the vestry and was, for a few years, a board member of St. Augustine’s Chapel on the Vanderbilt campus. For many years he coordinated volunteer transportation for cancer patients to their medical appointments. After his retirement he drove a mobile meal route at St Luke's Community House. His hobby, scrap booking, has provided numerous contributions about family, Nuremberg Trials, and the taxicab industry to the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public Library. A memorial service with interment in the columbarium will be at Christ Church Cathedral on March 30, 2022 at 1:00 PM. Visitation in the Parish Hall will precede the service at 11:30 AM. Masks and vaccines are encouraged by the church and CDC. Memorial contributions may be made to Christ Church Cathedral, 900 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, or the charity of your choice.