Francis Eugene Redman, age 81, died Saturday, May 23, 2015, in his home in San Francisco, California. Interment of cremated remains will take place at Greenwood Cemetary. Memorials should be directed to the Kenneth and Elizabeth Redman Scholarship in Art at South Dakota State University, Brookings. Francis Eugene Redman was born April 29, 1934, in Fargo, North Dakota, to Kenneth and Elizabeth Francis McMillan Redman. His artitistic talent was recognized early on, and in 9th grade he was provided with private art lessons by the Director of the Art Department of the University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd. He graduated from Brookings High School in 1952, and attended South Dakota State University for two years, where his art continued to flourish under Professors Anita Moore and Madeline Ritz. After graduating from the University of Iowa in 1956, he served two years as a medical corpsman in the United States Army 8th Evacuation Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. After honorable discharge at the rank of Spec4, he was employed in Graphic Arts by Iowa State University in Ames for several years. He then moved to San Francisco, where he illustrated children's books and was an artist for The California Wine Advisory Board. For the next 26 years he was an artist and then Art Director in the Publications Department of the California Automobile Association. After retiring, he worked as a free-lance artist, painting familiar San Francisco scenes and portraits of people's pets. Francis enjoyed the Art Museums of San Francisco and Europe, taking trips to Paris in the Springtime, bird-watching, and the company of friends. He once said, "The greatest cities in the world are San Francisco and Paris, and I live in one and vacation in the other". Survivors include his brother Robert Redman and sister-in-law Barbara Klug Redman of Potomac, Maryland, cousins David and Wayne Hough of Washington State, and niece Melissa Johnson of Odenton, Maryland.