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 Walter A. Reynolds, Jr.
November 07, 2005
Walter A. Reynolds, Jr., 71, of Bee Hill Road died Monday at his home.
Born in North Adams on Aug. 7, 1934, son of Walter A. Reynolds, Sr., and Jessie E. Newcomb Reynolds, he attended schools there.
He moved to Williamstown in 1948 and was a 1952 graduate of the former Williamstown High School. He attended Boston University and Michigan State University. He returned to Williamstown in June 2005.
A Marine Corps veteran, he served from 1954 to 1956.
Mr. Reynolds owned a business consulting company in Lansing, Mich. for 21 years, until his retirement in 1997. Prior to that, he worked for the State of Michigan Division of Crippled Children from 1959 to 1966. During court-ordered desegregation of the Kalamazoo public schools, he was a crisis counselor at Hillside and South Junior High schools.
He was the administrator of a methadone maintenance clinic for heroin addicts for Kalamazoo County, and was director of quality improvement with Manpower of Lansing for two years.
His first wife, Helen C. Falvey of Williamstown, is deceased.
He leaves his wife, the former M. Zay Winscott; a son, Walter A. Reynolds III, of Haslett, Mich., and a brother, Henry W. Reynolds of Ashburn, Va.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- An informal memorial celebration of Walt's life will be scheduled by the family after Henry's return from South Africa. Final arrangements are being handled by Vermont Blessings of Guilford, VT.
Memorials may be made to VNA+Hospice of Northern Berkshire, 535 Curran Memorial Highway, P.O. Box 869, North Adams, MA 01247, in memory of Walter A. Reynolds.
Walt realized his long-term dream of one day returning to the beautiful Berkshires or, as he liked to say, "God's Country." He also leaves his son's fiancée, Sharon Smith of Okemos, Mich.; a sister-in-law, Elizabeth Reynolds, and numerous nieces and nephews.
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