Richard “Dick” Velloza, a lifelong West Marin resident who built a house and a family in Point Reyes Station while delivering gas to ranches and tinkering for a water utility, died, on August 1 at age 89.
Dick’s father, Richard Velloza, Sr., was a Portuguese native who grew up in Porto Santo, a secluded island off the coast of Morocco, and Hawaii, where his father worked in the sugar cane fields. Around 1914, as the…