Vietnam veteran killed in motorcycle crash remembered as doer, family man [Video]

JACKSON COUNTY, MI – Mention you need an oil change? Done.

A friend of the family is giving away a queen mattress? It is at your house before you even decide you want it.

Your car’s brakes aren’t working so well and you need to make an appointment to have them fixed? Richard Haire is in your driveway, ready to repair them.

Whatever the task, Haire, 75, was already on it.

“He was always helpful and working on something,” his son Eddie Haire, 43, said. “It didn’t matter what it was. He would get things done and get it done now. He didn’t like to sit around and wait.”

Haire was fixing a family member’s motorcycle June 24 when he went on a test ride on Howard Road near Eckert Road in Pulaski Township, his family said.

The bike went off the road and hit a tree. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Jackson County …